The SQL aspect of LINQ is
much more than just the querying side we??™ve seen so far, and marks a more definite
step from Microsoft than its previous lukewarm ventures into this area, such as
ObjectSpaces. Only time will tell whether LINQ to SQL or perhaps its cousin the
ADO.NET Entity Framework hits the elusive sweet spot of making database access truly
simple??”they??™re certainly very promising.
Visual Studio 2008 was released in November 2007, including .NET 3.5, C# 3, and
VB9. It contains built-in support for many features that were previously only available as
extensions to Visual Studio 2005, as well as the new language and framework features.
Continuing the trend from Visual Studio 2005, a free Express edition is available for
each language. With the ability to target multiple versions of the .NET Framework and
only minimal solution and project changes when migrating existing code, there is little
reason not to upgrade to Visual Studio 2008??”I expect its adoption rate to be far faster
than that of Visual Studio 2005.
Dynamic languages have become increasingly important, with many options vying
for developers??™ attention. Ruby??”and particularly the Ruby on Rails framework??”has
had a large impact (with ports for Java and .NET), and other projects such as Groovy on
the Java platform and IronRuby and IronPython on .NET are gaining support.
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