This week, we talk about the “back to basics” movement, which begs the question:  what are the basics?

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HerdingCode 13: Back To Basics (but which ones?)

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This is the second half of our interview with Glenn Block. He talks about the interesting stuff he’s been up to at Microsoft with Prism, Unity, and MEF (the Managed Extensibility Framework). Be sure to listen to part 1 first or Glenn’s crazytalk about MEF will spin your head around.

Links:

• Glenn’s Prism posts - http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/archive/tags/prism/default.aspx
• Prism - www.microsoft.com/compositewpf
• Unity - http://msdn.microsoft.com/unity
• MEF - http://blogs.msdn.com/kcwalina/archive/2008/04/25/MEF.aspx
• MEF CTP - http://code.msdn.com/MEF
• Look for an article on Prism in the upcoming September issue of MSDN magazine.

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Episode 12: Glenn Block on Prism, Unity, and MEF (Part 2)

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This is the first half of our interview with Glenn Block. He talks about the interesting stuff he’s been up to at Microsoft with Prism, Unity, and MEF (the Managed Extensibility Framework).

Links:

• Glenn’s Prism posts - http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/archive/tags/prism/default.aspx
• Prism - www.microsoft.com/compositewpf
• Unity - http://msdn.microsoft.com/unity
• MEF - http://blogs.msdn.com/kcwalina/archive/2008/04/25/MEF.aspx
• MEF CTP - http://code.msdn.com/MEF
• Look for an article on Prism in the upcoming September issue of MSDN magazine.

Reminder: Geek Dinner with Jon, Kevin, and Jeff Atwood at the Pyramid Alehouse in Berkeley on 8/2 at 7 PM.

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Episode 11: Glenn Block on Prism, Unity, and MEF (Part 1)

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K Scott leads us in a discussion of LINQ, including:

1. What is it
2. How introducing LINQ to .NET changed the framework
3. LINQ Providers
4. LINQ to XML
5. LINQ to SQL - how it’s different from EF, tips and tricks, when to use it

Links:

• LINQpad
• 3rd Party LINQ providers list on OakLeaf Systems blog
• LINQ to Everything providers list on Charlie Calvert’s blog
• CLINQ (continuous LINQ)
• HTML Agility Pack
• Evolution of LINQ (MSDN Magazine article on LINQ’s history and impact on .NET)
• LINQ to SQL Debugger Visualizer
• Two LINQ to SQL Myths
• Rob’s Not So Lazy MVC Storefront
• Ian Cooper’s Architecting LINQ to SQL applications series
• Background Motion
• Linq2SQL designer refresh add-in

Also, Scott Koon was gone this week. We did our best to make sure you wouldn’t notice.

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Herding Code 10: LINQ

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This week, we catch up with Rob Conery. Topics:

1. SubSonic 2.1
2. Where SubSonic fits in the Microsoft data access tools explosion
3. Why LINQ to SubSonic is so durn tricky
4. MVC Storefront - has it made Rob a TDD believer
5. What else is Rob up to at Microsoft

Links:

• Rob’s Blog
• SubSonic

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Episode 9: Rob Conery on SubSonic, MVC Storefront, and the Silverlight Ninja Squad

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