The current CTP is shipped as a Virtual PC image that means you cannot expect it run ultra fast

MSP Meeting

I've become a Microsoft Student Partner

When learning a new ORM one of the most important and interesting thing is to get to know how you can manipulate data with that tool.Thus, this particular thing is explained in this tutorial.

If you use LINQ to SQL, you may wonder why Microsoft released yet another ORM (Entity Framework), while they already had one. You may also be confused, because it’s not obvious which one to choose. Anyway, the Entity Framework has its own shiny features that don’t present in LINQ to SQL

Although MySQL don't seem to be very interested in providing a native support for LINQ to MySQL and you have to use 3-rd party providers to interact with MySQL by using LINQ, they seem to move towards Entity Framework.

I've been programming with PHP for many years and have used a lot of editors and so-called IDEs, I must admit that PHP IDEs have become much better now and they differ significantly from simple editors with syntax highlighting.

Even though I don't program with C++ much these days, I still love the book entitled 'C++ Programming Language'

There is a preview version only, but the release version will come soon, I think it looks very promising.

Although there is a built-in control for advertisement rotation in ASP.NET, it is capable of showing image ads only. However, in the real life you often have to deal with the ads that require some JavaScript code, for instance, you want to put there AdSense code or want to use Flash banners instead of images. Thus, if you want to rotate complex ads, you have to develop your own control.