New and Notable 221

I was going to write a separate post on this but I will include it here. I have had the opportunity to work on three different projects with three different Microsoft field groups lately and have come away impressed with both their technical skills as well as professionalism. I have had nothing but great experiences and fun! BTW, in one place/customer, I was introduced as "This is Sam Gentile from the Evil Empire." Nice.

ADO.NET

• The ADO.NET team got some very sizeable performance increases for ADO.NET with .NET Framework 2.0 SP1. Nice!

CLR/.NET Framework/Windows Workflow

• My co-workers have done quite a job out there at SoCal Code Camp!!
• Mark Bosely on Windows Workflow
• Rinat on Concurrent Programming in .NET (Parallel FX)
• Rinat on Dependency Injection Framework

CLR/.NET Languages

• Ted has nice coverage of the Lang.NET Symposium
• Highlights Day 1
• Highlights Day 2
• Highlights Day 3