I had a chance this week to breeze through a new book titled LINQ Quickly [http://www.packtpub.com/linq-quick-starter/book]. It is published by Packt Publishing and written by N. Shateesh Kumar. The book is about 225 pages long and is focuses on how to use LINQ with various  targets. First I will re

Today I started the migration of my web site and blog to Telligent's [http://www.telligent.com] new tool, Graffiti [http://www.graffiticms.com]. You can check out the latest news on Graffiti at www.graffiticms.com . It is currently in beta, but has some very interesting features. I am sure to go

Diego Vega [http://blogs.msdn.com/diego/] started me thinking about the differences between the different API's to the Entity Framework. I am currently doing a lot of writing about the Entity Framework and preparing many sessions on the topic so it obviously interests me :).  I had asked Diego a

I recently took the plunge on purchasing a tablet PC. I wanted something light, very portable, powerful, long battery life and it had to be a tablet PC. I spent months researching and tinkering with samples before I finally decide on the Lenovo Thinkpad X61. I looked at the Fujitsu, HP, Toshiba and

My December column of Data Points [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/12/DataPoints/] has just been released and is now available online [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/12/DataPoints/]. This month I discuss WPF data binding techniques, which are a huge improvement over previous