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I'm installing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 RC0 on a Virtual PC image and during the .NET 3.5 SP1 beta installation (it seems mandatory!) setup asked to close itself! The message was something like this: "In order to continue the setup please close the following application: .NET 3.5 Sp1 beta 1" :O. I've pressed the Ignore button and everything is going well.

Labels: SQL Server 2008

Reading the Nigel Parker's blog you can see why your Silverlight apps stopped to work if used with Firefox 3. It seems that the problem is during Silverlight's version identification. As result you obtain the banner asking you to install Silverlight instead of the Silverlight application. For recent version of Silverlight such as 2.0 beta 1 and 2.0 beta 2, everything works fine.

Labels: Silverlight

I'm reviewing a couple of books on SQL Server 2008. Thanks to them I've been able to appreciate new features and improvements provided by the new version. If you want to try the RC0 release of SQL Server 2008 you can obtain it at this address. It is valid just for 180 days. If you want to use it with Visual Studio 2008 remember to download the SP 1 beta.

Labels: SQL Server 2008

So, a new Silverlight beta version is out. Watch out! It is not compatible with the previous beta version so if you update to this new version you have to update your sites as well. Find more information here and here.

Labels: Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Hello everybody,
I'm here to apologize with you about the update frequency of this blog. A lot of things happened from my last post. For example, I'm just come back from my honeymoon! This means I'm married, yes. And, do you know about the time that marriage's preparation consume? This is the main reason about the scarce blog updating. Moreover, I was busy to update my book's content. At last, I've finished my work and the book is about to be printed. The Ebook version of the book can be found here.

By the way, I'm thinking to change my blog from an unique LINQ prospective to a more generic ones. I like to follow other technologies such as Silverlight, XNA, etc.

So, stay tuned, I'll try to do my best to provide you updated information on the coolest Microsoft new technologies.

Good news for me! Apress gave me its consensus to update my books to the final version of LINQ shipped with Visual Studio 2008. Pretty much work for me, but I'm happy of that! Stay tuned, I'll post my experinces during books' update.

Labels: LINQ, Visual Studio 2008

Microsoft released the Visual Studio 2008 RTM release. Lot of news on blogs about it, I don't like to repeat it: check these links: ScottGu's, SomaSegar, and Charlie Calvert.

Labels: LINQ, Visual Studio 2008

Dinesh Kulkarni published a post where are shown the news that coming in the RTM release of the LINQ to SQL framework.

Labels: LINQ, RTM, Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2

No more Orcas here... Visual Studio 2008 is the new name for the next release of Microsoft's development tool. You can find virtual machine images and installables here. Happy download!

In order to have a summery of LINQ changes take a look at here.

Happy holidays to all, I'll check beta 2 features from here!

Labels: LINQ, Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2

Starting from the June 2007 CTP release even Visual Basic language has its own way to manage Lambda expressions. Let's see an example:

1: Public Delegate Function Sum(ByVal a As Integer, ByVal b As Integer) As Integer
2: ...
3: Dim DoSum As Sum = Function(ByVal a, ByVal b) a + b
4: Dim ret As Integer = DoSum(4, 5)
5:
6: 'Using named arguments
7: ret = DoSum(b:=3, a:=4)

Using the Function keyword you can define the Lambda expression (see row 3). In the next beta 2 release will not be more needed to specify the ByVal keyword for the Lambda's parameters.

Thanks to Corrado Cavalli for this info.

Labels: June 2007 CTP, LINQ, VB