Last week, at second anual Israeli Dev Academy conference, I gave presentation about LINQ.I was very lucky to have huge (in Israeli scale :-)) and very enthusiastic croud. My goal was to pass a couple of important LINQ related ideas: LINQ is not a new OR mapper or API to deal with XML LINQ is all about having best of two worlds: Objects and Data LINQ changes the way you write code You can get fare performance with LINQ You are welcome to download and use presentation slides and demos . You will need...
There was an issue with local resources generation in Orcas beta1. Each time we tried to perform "Generate Local Resource" for web page, A resource writer could not be found." message was shown in output window and nothing was generated. You can find reference to this problem here and here . This was not a critical issue for beta1 product stage IMHO. Now, in beta2 it gets better. Local Resource Generation option finally working fine in VS2008, but... After beta2 setup on my machine, the same problem...