Ever wonder what really happens when you write a simple LINQ query? Dim query = From row In db.Customers _ Where row.Country = "Canada" _ Select row A lot of new language features went into the compilers in Visual Studio 2008 to make even this simple LINQ query work. In this interview I sit down with Jonathan Aneja , a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Compiler team, who dives deep into these features like Type Inference, Anonymous Types, Lambda Expressions, Expressions Trees, and more
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Channel 9 Interview: LINQ Language Deep Dive with Visual Studio 2008
Mike Hnatt has generously extended to the Access blog readers a FREE version of Gladstone’s Access Report Writer . Traditionally, he has sold the developer version of the wizard for $995
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Free report wizard offer from Gladstone
Since I got a fan of the jQuery Javascript library , usually I can’t resist showing off the power of this library in my SharePoint development courses at U2U .
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Breaking the WSS Top Link Bar in two with jQuery
You could visit CodePlex , type in SharePoint in the search box and sort by popularity to get the “top” projects, but here’s a list of the top projects picked by the SharePoint MVPs which I find to be a little more value-added than CodePlex’s popularity ranking. YMMV.
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Favorite CodePlex SharePoint Projects
I just posted a new Channel 9 interview on a nifty little feature which isn’t so little when you look at it from the compiler. In this interview, Tyler Whitney , a developer on the Visual Basic compiler team demonstrates how line termination has changed in the Visual Basic 10 compiler making underscores unnecessary as line continuation indicators.
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Channel 9 Interview: No More Underscores in Visual Basic 10!
Mike Alexander (Excel MVP) recently sent me a very cool trick that I hadn’t seen before. He uses some simple hackery and trickery to get data bars in a query
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Data bars in an Access query
Every SharePoint developer should invest some time in building up his own toolkit to make the development experience a more fluid and efficient one. This is a preliminary list of SharePoint tools aimed at SharePoint developers. I will update this list quite regularly to keep it up to date with new releases
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My SharePoint developer toolkit