Spent the day in NYC with a super important client as well as Microsoft. Having another day tomorrow today

LINQ

• LINQPad - LINQ query expression tool that you can use to quickly try out LINQ expressions. You can think of LINQPad as SQL Query Analyzer, but with LINQ expressions as the queries. LINQPad supports LINQ to Objects, LINQ to SQL and LINQ to XML. In fact, it supports everything in C# 3.0 and .NET
• My friend Steve has completed the LINQ in Action book he has been working on and has an example of Converting a CSV file to XML using the semi-colon challenged language

Windows Vista

• What's New in Windows Vista SP1

Web Programming

• New Release: patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications