David Hayden [MVP C#]

Feels weird to have a Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 launch events happening in June, but the Sarasota Florida .NET Developer Launch Event is on Saturday, June 21, 2008 at the Sarasota Community Foundation. There are not many details published yet, but unless things change, I will be presenting the new language features in C# 3.0 as well as the various flavors of LINQ. Since I have been presenting on various Visual Studio 2008 SP1 features for quite some time, expect me to sneak in Entity Framework, Astoria, and Dynamic Data whenever possible.

I haven't put the presentation together yet, but expect C# 3.0 information on:

• Anonymous Types
• Automatically Implemented Properties
• Extension Methods
• Implicitly Typed Local Variables
• Lambda Expressions
• Expression Trees
• Object and Collection Initializers
• Partial Methods

With LINQ we will probably dig into:

• LINQ To Objects
• LINQ To Xml
• LINQ To DataSets
• LINQ To SQL
• LINQ To Entities

and then if possible I will briefly toss in the following topics as related to the above:

• ADO.NET Entity Framework and EntityDataSource
• ADO.NET Data Services ( Astoria )
• ASP.NET Dynamid Data

All of this is tentative based on the amount of time in the session, etc., but I hope to see you at the Sarasota Launch Event.

David Hayden