Fabrice's weblog

I've been quiet lately about PageMethods because other projects kept me busy and contrarily to what I wished, I haven't been able to create PageMethods Pro last year.

It's the period of the year when asp.netPRO runs the asp.netPRO Readers' Choice Awards. It's time for you to vote for your preferred ASP.NET products and resources for 2007.

My fourth year as a Microsoft MVP starts today :-)
You can expect a lot of continued or new .NET community projects this year, including SharpToolbox.com, the LINQ in Action book, LinqInAction.net, proagora.com, PageMethods and more...
 

Andres Aguiar started an interesting discussion about disconnected operation and change tracking in the ADO.NET Entity Framework.

The diagram below provided by Luke shows a mobile. It consists in a bunch of weights (A-M) hanging from a system of bars. Each weight has an integer value between 1 and 13, and the goal is to figure out what each weight must be for the the diagram below to balance correctly as shown:

As we are about to reach an important step with the LINQ in Action book that will make the first bits public, we start to look back at what we did and how it happened.

Krzysztof Cwalina points to a fascinating presentation. Full of passion, content, and visual power. Very instructive. See by yourself.
This is one more great presentation from TED.

After several months of work, the project reaches a new milestone. Steve and I have the pleasure to announce that Jim Wooley has joined us. Jim will take care of the chapters about LINQ to SQL. With the new preview of Orcas, we'll be able to make a lot of progress because it contains support for almost all of LINQ's features, including LINQ to SQL.