I will be speaking at Microsoft TechFEST 2008 Singapore on October 23rd. The topic? Nothing special -- just same old LINQ Hopefully I can present it in a practical manner that will help developers get up to speed with it. In any case, I think LINQ is so simple to grasp that it's more likely that...
In part 1 of this series i showed you how to specify the voice, gender, rate and volume of the our SpeechSynthesizer object. This time i'm going to show you how to use predefined Voices in your machine and utilize it as hints to your SpeechSynthesizer object. The first thing that I did to our sample...
Language Integrated Query Language Integrated Query (LINQ, pronounced "link") is a Microsoft .NET Framework component that adds native data querying capabilities to .NET languages using a syntax reminiscent of SQL. Many of the concepts that LINQ has introduced were originally tested in Microsoft's...
Do you want to use LINQ but you are still stuck with .NET 2.0 and .NET 3.0? Are you still waiting for your company to upgrade to VS 2008 to get a hold of LINQ? Then wait no more because the good guys who wrote the book C# 3.0 In A Nutshell have created a .NET library that implements all the standard...
A big thanks to those who participated in the Philippine Launch Wave of Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008, and SQL Server 2008. The event was a huge success not only for Microsoft Philippines but for the user groups who was present during the launch delivering mini-sessions as well as the breakout...
I was browsing at DevPinoy.org today when I saw this interesting post by n@rds about searching for files in a directory using multiple search patterns and it made me realize that there are alot of ways you can accomplish this task. Here are some examples on how you can search files in a directory using...
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Just in case you are interested... Microsoft is giving away Free E-Books of 3 great books Introducing Microsoft LINQ by Paolo Pialorsi and Marco Russo ISBN: 9780735623910 Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX by Dino Esposito ISBN: 9780735624139 Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 by Laurence Moroney...
I've been banging .NET 3.5 lately and this rendezvouz with LINQ (Language Integrated Query) has been making my brain smile alot. I mean, how can you not like something so easy and well defined and makes your life as developer alot easier. Anyhow, I just wanted to post my LINQ cheat sheet. It's...