Speaking at the InnoTech Conference

I’ll be speaking at the InnoTech Conference in Portland, Oregon on April 16th and 17th. My session will get you started with LINQ, a new feature available in the Microsoft .Net v3.5 Framework.

Language-Integrated Query is one of the most compelling features for your business in the Microsoft .Net 3.5 Framework. LINQ provides a succinct and expressive layer over your database tables, stored procedures, XML, and other objects. You’ll learn how to get started with LINQ and gain some visibility into what’s going on under the hood with this game changing addition to the .Net Framework.

I’ll start with some of the fundamental features that enable LINQ to exist including object initializers, local inferred types, extension methods, lambda expressions and then dive into LINQ to SQL and LINQ to XML. Hopefully, I’ll have time to touch on LINQ to XSD and some of the other activies going on with this game changer.

I’m also looking forward to seeing some friends talk about Silverlight and agile development practices. Hope to see you there!