“Microsoft has granted Sells Brothers, Inc. a research grant to add ref-counting to Rotor and to study the performance effects. There’s been a lot of speculation about just how we’re planning to add ref-counting to Rotor.”

“Plan:

• Give overview of language from point of view of compiler writer
• Code generation for CLR is trival, so we’ll focus on type checking
• Specification is 410 pages, almost no formal methods, and frustratingly verbosely written
• We’ll boil much of it down to five parts”

“In Chapter 5, I extolled the virtues of setting up your DataSets like in-memory databases. Unfortunately I asked you to write quite a bit of code to do all the work. I was only teasing you. This chapter will show you how to use Typed DataSets to make that job a lot easier while at the same time creating type-safety at compilation time.”

“More classes! More working code! Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!”

“We are currently conducting an open beta-test.

“Built Software recently released the first beta of BoxDB for .NET, a library designed to simplify database application development. BoxDB is an abstraction layer that sits between your application and a SQL database. The purpose is twofold: First, BoxDB eliminates the type of repetitive SQL programming that you might otherwise cut & paste throughout your app. Second, BoxDB creates a simpler interface for persisting application data to the database.”

Harry Pierson has made a number of updates to this core code to support his full-blown .NET IM client application. Check it out!

F# is the CLR language “[c]ombining the speed, safety and productivity of ML and Caml with the libraries, tools and cross-language working of .NET”

Don used to say that F was invented for things that there was no F-ing way to do in other languages…

″…the .NET Pet Shop performs over 10 times faster than Oracle’s Java Pet Store based on Oracle’s latest (questionable) published data.”