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Matt Winkler posted some very cool stuff regarding using Windows Workflow and ASP.NET on his blog a few days ago.  I’m just getting around to commenting on it myself.  Incidentally, there are live bits to install this time. Naturally I haven’t had a chance to play with this myself (or much of anything else that’s come out in the last few months), but I definitely am looking forward to being able to easily use Workflow within ASP.NET applications.  Hopefu ... [ read more ]
The story of Edit and Continue (which I’ll refer to as EnC) is a very long one.   Having been a cornerstone of Visual Basic in the past, it had always been planned for us to ship an Edit and Continue experience with Visual Studio 2002.   But we didn’t.   Why?   Well, it all came down to time.   VB7 (let’s call it that for convenience, though it’s not the official moniker) was a total rewrite from VB6 – not one line of code was reused.   The new code had to t ... [ read more ]
Daniel Moth has a good post describing .NET Framework 3.5 ... I though i'd share part of it here as it is likely better than one I could do... thanks Daniel.   Our goal with the .NET Framework 3.5 was to make it very easy for customers to adopt while providing some really interesting new value.  The "easy to adopt" comes from what we call the "Redbits".. There we are using the same core bits as .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0 (we just rolled in an SP1 to fix customer reported issues ... [ read more ]
  As mentioned earlier, there is a Hands On Lab available from Microsoft which walks you through some basic (and not so basic!) steps in using Linq To SQL.  The download page is here.   Here are a few observations on the Linq To SQL Hands on Labs that I jotted down while I was working through it : So Much Reassurance is, umm, Reassuring!   One aspect of the Labs that I particularly liked was that the narrative was full of helpful notes to reassure me as I w ... [ read more ]


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