Wow, I can't believe how many people out there are not using LINQ in some form. We use it daily if not hourly for SQL, object modelling (particularly the foreach on generic lists) and mocking (we use MOQ). We've even used it for active directory and that was fantastic!
Regards, Michael Lyons -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adelle Hartley Sent: Sunday, 21 March 2010 4:28 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Developer apathy... Geoff Appleby wrote: > Yup. I was very interested in .net when it first started. VS 2005 was great, > particularly the improvements in .net 2.0. .net 3 was pretty cool in a way > - i really like wcf, but wpf holds no interest for me. vs2008 only gave me a > nicer development environment, linq is still something i can't find a use > for. so with 2010 i really haven't been following whats coming, because i've > been underwhelmed for the last two releases. The only thing that excites > me (of teh things i'm aware of - and as i've already admitted i havent' > looked into it much due to lack of excitement) with 2010 is the new release > of TFS. LINQ is more exciting for the possibilities it promises than the reality of what actually comes in the box - and I feel the same way about the new dynamic features. It's a new base that it's up to us to build on. That's pretty exciting. Adelle.
