August 2006 Blog Posts
Over the last week I've been revisting LINQ, actually spending some time working with it. In the past I've been wary, critical even, of some of the requirements for using LINQ, but I'm relaxing my stance a little in light of the ADO.NET vNext Entity Data Framework. Together, LINQ and EDF are awesome. My test project, whch is for a conference keynote this week, showns LINQ and EDF allowing me to delete 12 classes and simplify the business logic in a trivial site; for larger scale applications it coud have even more benefits. One of the things that attracts me...
Bookpool are promoting the ASP.NET 2.0 Illustrated book, at almost 50% off. So don't go a buy it from there. No. Go to a bookshop and pay full price. Even if it's on discount, insist on paying the full price. In fact, buy one for a friend too.
[Listening to: Solid Air - John Martyn - Solid Air]
Tess has a couple of intereting posts on the Cache object. Well worth reading, including the comments: .NET Memory Leak Case Study and ASP.NET Quiz Answers: Does Page.Cache leak memory?. If you're not already subscribed to her blog, then I recommend you should; you can learn alot about .NET from it.