An Orcas Preview: Go Inside the Next Version of VB

Microsoft is promising some exciting new features for Visual Basic 9 (codename: Orcas). The enhancements will include better-integrated support for handling data, increased support for dynamic typing, and language features that will reduce code redundancy and improve programmer productivity. In fact, the release offers too many great new features for any one article to cover, so this preview focuses on a few of my favorites:

• Object initializers
• Implicitly typed local variables
• LINQ
• Query comprehensions
• Nullable types

To learn more; go to http://www.400plusdifferences.com/

MVP Today!

I'm just on my way to bed, and I thought I'd make a blog first.

When I got to office this morning I thought it was the beginning of a day much like many others. Little did I know that it will be anything but normal. This is indeed the first day of the rest of my life... as an MVP

Yes, I was crowned today and I have many to thank for it, after God of course.

I would like to take this opportunity to name a few; Taj Khayat, Amr El Garhy, Mazen Abu-Ali and my dear partner in crime Omar Shraim! Thank you all for making this a dream come true... well part of it anyway.

Thank you and good night!

CLR Profiler

New tool from Microsoft to monitor performance of .net application by monitoring the CLR Profile.

It's particularly useful to enhance your applications performance amongst other things.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=86ce6052-d7f4-4aeb-9b7a-94635beebdda&displaylang=en