The course continues

Hello there.

Completed day 2 and 3 of the "Developing Web Applications Using Studio 2008" here at Info Support.

Traffic on both days was a real pain. Yesterday it took me nearly 2.5 hours just to get to Mechelen. Something that normally doesn't take more then an hour :s

Today was better, but mayB it's because I came from the other side of Brussels ;-)

Anyway, the pace of the course is still slow. Getting a lot of tips and tricks, but no fundamental new stuff so far. I'll be dedicating a blog soon with a summary of all the tips I've gotten over the last couple of days.

It wasn't all bad, off course. Yesterday we briefly covered Linq, which was really cool to say the least. The course covered only the designer way of doing it, but I couldn't resist and wrote my first Linq statement. Amazingly cool and performant.

var s = from peeps in context.people
where peeps.name = "steven"
orderby peeps.dateofbirth;

Just write a syntax like this on a defined DataContext and bind it to a control. The cool stuff about Linq is that it only executes the statement once the databind instruction is called, thus only when data is actually needed.

Today, we will be covering some new 3.5 stuff like AJAX and SilverLight. I'm really exited about these things.

My thoughts go out to my buddy Willy who is doing my presentation in Brugge while I'm taking the course. Respect !