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Academic Tour 4.0

Ξ December 12th, 2007 | → 2 Comments | ∇ .Net Framework, Tools and technologies, Web |

On the 7th of December, we will host the Academic Tour version 4. This event was organized by us (the Microsoft Student Partners from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca) and was focused on web technologies. The targeted technologies were: Linq (Language Integrated Query),  ASP .Net 3.5, AJAX, Silverlight and Project Astoria.

I presented LINQ. This is a very interesting technology that allows the programmer to query objects in a way similar to today’s techniques of querying data. For example, if one has an array of numbers, say:

int[] a = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 };
var res = from n in a
          where n > 4
          select n;

Would load in res an array containing the numbers 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. One can also use LINQ to query databases, Amazon, datasets, XML and more. If you are interested in this technology, you can find more information about it on The LINQ Project site. Perhaps in a future post I will present more LINQ examples.

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1. Tudor Vlad said,
   
   

   on December 12th, 2007 at 10:56 pm

   You did a great job at AT4.0! Keep it up!

   Also, you should check this site: http://www.hookedonlinq.com/ , i.e. if you haven’t already done so.

2. admin said,
   
   

   on December 12th, 2007 at 10:59 pm

   Thank you. I shall try
   Also the site is nice. Here is another one, just for fun, though I assume you know it(PLINQ): http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/10/PLINQ/default.aspx

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