The session was just wonderful, a total blast, but more info on that later... But please do fill out the online evaluations! It's something you can do to help me be a better speaker and let us know how much you liked the content! During my talk, I raffled off 6 signed copies of my book: Without further ado, the following were chosen at random...

...as Hannibal (A-Team Hannibal, not Lecter) would say. See, I'm kind of a last-minute kind of guy. Not the absolutely last minute, but I tend to work stuff out in my head for a while before I actually start doing anything concrete, and that can be a little disconcerting. Amanda has been bugging me for the past month about my presentation,...

Throughout this week and beyond, we’re going to be doing a lot of talking about Project LINQ, so I wanted to start with a relatively brief overview of what the project is, what its goals are, and how they apply to VB. To start with, LINQ stands for “Language Integrated QUery.” LINQ fundamentally is about integrating query...

Throughout this week and beyond, we’re going to be doing a lot of talking about Project LINQ, so I wanted to start with a relatively brief overview of what the project is, what its goals are, and how they apply to VB. To start with, LINQ stands for “Language Integrated QUery.” LINQ fundamentally is about integrating query...

Today at the PDC, we’re launching “Project LINQ,” and it’s big. Really big. I mean, really, I wish I had the money to hire those guys who do the movie trailer voiceovers (and you know who I’m talking about): In a world torn apart by incompatible conflicting and incompatible data domains, one company dared to stand...

Today at the PDC, we’re launching “Project LINQ,” and it’s big. Really big. I mean, really, I wish I had the money to hire those guys who do the movie trailer voiceovers (and you know who I’m talking about): In a world torn apart by incompatible conflicting and incompatible data domains, one company dared to stand...

Today marks the beginning of one of the bigger experiments that I’ve been a part of during my 13 years at Microsoft. No, I don’t mean any of the new technologies that we’re going to start talking about today and through the week. The grand experiment that we’re beginning at this PDC is radically opening up the...

Today marks the beginning of one of the bigger experiments that I’ve been a part of during my 13 years at Microsoft. No, I don’t mean any of the new technologies that we’re going to start talking about today and through the week. The grand experiment that we’re beginning at this PDC is radically opening up the...

I've made it to the PDC and managed to dodge, so far, the power outages. Hooked up with a bunch of other VB'ers for dinner and now I'm trying to figure out when I'm going to get everything I've got to get done done in the next four days... Dinner, though, was good - good food, good conversation. It occurs to me that one of the real reasons we...

(We now interrupt the PDC drumbeat for this random message.) Since we’re just biding our time ‘til Serenity comes out in theaters, Andrea and I have continued to watch Battlestar Galactica even though we still think it’s only so-so. (Something that I’m sure YAG is going to bug me about when I get to the PDC.) Some...

(We now interrupt the PDC drumbeat for this random message.) Since we’re just biding our time ‘til Serenity comes out in theaters, Andrea and I have continued to watch Battlestar Galactica even though we still think it’s only so-so. (Something that I’m sure YAG is going to bug me about when I get to the PDC.) Some...

See, normally, someone who’s not a developer and is presenting at the PDC takes the technology they’re going to demo, works with it, figures out what works and what doesn’t work, and then writes their demo around that. But since I’ve been actually building a bunch of the technology that I’m going to show, as I...

Well, folks, we’re getting close… Did my second session dry run yesterday and we’re headed in to the home stretch! Looking forward to seeing everyone at the PDC. For those of you who’d like to chat about VB, I’m definitely going to be in the Tools and Languages lounge Thursday afternoon after my talk,...

Well, folks, we’re getting close… Did my second session dry run yesterday and we’re headed in to the home stretch! Looking forward to seeing everyone at the PDC. For those of you who’d like to chat about VB, I’m definitely going to be in the Tools and Languages lounge Thursday afternoon after my talk,...

Apropos of the previous entry, I should add that I agree wholeheartedly with Eric’s contention that parameterless default properties were almost entirely evil. They did make working with some objects much easier, but they came at such a cost of understandability that I don’t believe that, in the end, they were worth it. When I...