Today I was trying to figure out the Linq syntax to find the max DateTime out of a list of objects that had a ModifiedOn property. Here is what I came up with:

DateTime maxLastModified = list.PickListItems.Items.Max(p => p.ModifiedOn);

Too easy, huh?

Actually, this is not so much Linq as just extension methods and lambda expressions, although one could argue that is what Linq is...I will leave that to the philosphers.

I recently discovered that I can actually use most of my favorite C# 3.0 language features even in projects that target .NET Framework 2.0. Read more to see which...

Lino Tadros, President and CEO of Falafel Software, has been invited to speak at the DevReach conference in Sofia, Bulgaria

I had the pleasure to be invited to participate on the "LINQ in the UI" panel at TechED 2008 this week with some of the brightest minds at Microsoft in regards to that topic.  I shared the stage with Amanda Silver, VB Program Manager, Erick Thompson, MS Program Manager and Charlie Calvert, C# community Program Manager.

At Falafel, John Waters and Bary Nusz have been working very hard on releasing the new Telerik Trainer product for Telerik Corp. when they have used LINQ to XML and LINQ to Objects to simplify the UI code and make it readable and maintainable to build a XAML based WPF application.  The main point that we wanted to push on the panel is that LINQ is not just for queries and databases, but you can use it's power to build elegant User Interfaces as it is capable to work with any IEnumerable to accomplish the job.

One of the things I have come to love about Linq is how you can focus more on declarative programming: focusing on what you want to accomplish rather than how...

Falafel is partnering with Microsoft to offer this free half day seminar at the beautiful Saint Claire hotel in downtown San Jose, CA to celebrate the release of Visual Studio 2008, LINQ, WPF, WCF, WF and other exciting technologies.

Please join us on December 10th from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM Register on the Microsoft event site ASAP as space is limited. Charlie Calvert, the C# Community Project Manager will be there to talk about LINQ and Lino Tadros will present the usefulness of the new technologies. Hope to see you there!

Wow!  I was told so many times that Visual Studio 2008 will ship in 2007, well it does not sound like that is a possibility anymore.

Microsoft released a new date, February 27th 20008 to release Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008

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I found the following blog post on programming.reddit.com:

http://www.atrevido.net/blog/2007/09/05/C+30+And+LINQ+Misunderstandings.aspx

I also recommend these blogs on functional programming in C# 3.0 by the same author:

http://www.atrevido.net/blog/2007/08/12/Practical+Functional+C+Part+I.aspx

http://www.atrevido.net/blog/2007/08/13/Practical+Functional+C+Part+II.aspx

http://www.atrevido.net/blog/2007/08/16/Practical+Functional+C+Part+III+Loops+Are+Evil.aspx

http://www.atrevido.net/blog/2007/08/29/Practical+Functional+C+Part+IV+Think+In+ResultSets.aspx

This is really good stuff that any C# programmer can benefit from