Scott Guthrie, who will be keynoting October 20, 2008, was a founding member of the .NET Framework team and today runs the development teams that deliver the CLR, ASP.NET, Silverlight, WPF, IIS7, and the Visual Studio tools for web, WPF and Silverlight development. Previously the General Manager of Microsoft's Developer Division, he was promoted to Corporate Vice President in February '08.
Over the last few months I've written a series of blog posts that covered
some of the new language features that are coming with the Visual Studio and
.NET Framework Orcas release. Here are pointers to those posts:
Automatic Properties, Object Initializer and Collection Initializers
Extension Methods Lambda Expressions Query Syntax Anonymous Types The
language features above help make querying data a first-class programming
concept. We call this overall querying programming model LINQ, which stands
for .NET Language Integrated Query.
Developers can use LINQ with any data source. They can express efficient
query behavior in their programming language of choice, optionally
transform/shape data query results into whatever format they want, and then
easily manipulate the res... (more)
Today we shipped the final release of Silverlight 2. You can download
Silverlight 2, as well the Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 2 tool
support to target it, here. Silverlight 2 is a major release that enables
some great new application and media experiences to be built, and allows
developers to use .NET within any browser to create them.
Cross Platform / Cross Browser .NET Develo... (more)
Scott Guthrie, who will be keynoting October 20, 2008, was a founding member of the .NET Framework team and today runs the development teams that deliver the CLR, ASP.NET, Silverlight, WPF, IIS7, and the Visual Studio tools for web, WPF and Silverlight development. Previously the General Manager of Microsoft's Developer Division, he was promoted to Corporate Vice President in February '08.
Keith Bergelt
Ricardo Aravena
Gaurav Mantri
Aditya Banerjee
John Karamitsos
Kaj van de Loo
Bob Little
Alois Reitbauer
Chris Schin
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