B# .NET Blog

Last week, I had the honor to speak at TechEd 2008 South Africa on a variety of topics. In this post I’ll outline all of the resources, including uploads of all my demos, referred to during my presentations. But before I do so, I sincerely want to point out what a great audience I got. Thanks to everyone for attending, asking a lot of both interesting and challenging questions, the kind words, great and honest evaluations and so much more – you were a fabulous audience. Hope to see you all again next year!

DEV 305 – C# 3.0 and LINQ Inside Out

• MSDN C# home page
• My blog posts on C# 3.0
• My blog posts on LINQ
• My C# 3.0 feature focus blog posts – Posts about all of the language features in C# 3.0.
• My VB 9.0 feature focus blog posts – For language parity, posts about all of the language features in VB 9.0.
• Running session demo – Illustrates all language features; uses a local SQL Server 2005 or higher instance (used .\SQLEXPRESS) with Northwind to illustrate LINQ to SQL and partial methods.
• Session demo preparation code – Same as a above but with much more inline comments.

MGT 301 – Next-Generation Manageability – Windows PowerShell and MMC 3.0

• My blog posts on Windows PowerShell
• The cmdlet development cookbook – Outlines all the steps required to set up a debugging experience to create cmdlets easily.
• Cmdlet demo – Get-Greeting cmdlet.
• My blog posts on MMC 3.0
• The MMC snap-in development cookbook – Outlines all the steps required to set up a debugging experience to create managed MMC 3.0 snap-ins easily.
• Runspaces demo – Basic plumbing to use runspaces, including a PS console file for debugging.
• Post on the “Tiny IIS Manager” – Shows cmdlet creation, MMC snap-in creation and layering through runspaces; includes download.

DEV 303 – Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework

• Parallel Extensions June 2008 CTP Download
• MSDN home page for Parallel Extensions
• My blog posts on Parallel Extensions (more coming soon).
• Shown demos are included with the Parallel Extensions June 2008 CTP – BlendImages, Sudoku, LINQRayTracer.
• Durban beach photos used in BlendImages demo

DEV 304 – Writing Custom LINQ Providers

• My blog posts on LINQ
• LINQ SQO – A custom implementation of the Standard Query Operators (aka LINQ to Objects).
• LINQ to AD – Translates LINQ queries into LDAP filters and calls to System.DirectoryServices APIs.
• Preparation code I used to populate a Lightweight Directory Services (ADAM) instance with user objects from the Northwind Employees table
• Background post on setting up Windows Server 2008 Lightweight Directory Services
• TheSimplestIQueryable – Shows the bare essentials to create an IQueryable implementation.
• LINQ to SharePoint – A more complete end-to-end provider with VS2008 integration and entity generation tool “SPMetal”.
• Preparation code I used to populate a SharePoint list with Northwind Products data
• LINQ to SharePoint demo - Requires to install WSS 3.0, LINQ to SharePoint 0.2.4, and have the Northwind Products table exported as a list.

Again, thank you very much for attending, have fun and see you around sooner or later!