I did a talk yesterday down at the UK Launch of Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 about Language Integrated Query as it stands in VS 2008 and .NET Framework V3.5.

Firstly, thanks to everyone who came along to the talk - much appreciated.

Also a massive thanks to the guys who helped us out with the track at the launch namely;

Guy, Andy and Amanda

who did a stunning job.

An equally massive thanks to the guys who helped us out in the community area, the ATE and the labs who were all doing a  great job - I won't list names here but you know who you are and what a big difference you made to the event :-)

If you want to catch up on the launch after the event then you can check out the new ( Silverlight based ) Virtual Launch Experience which is up here;

Virtual Launch Experience

Now...the content isn't 100% the same as what we did in Birmingham so I thought I'd share my session with you here in written form in case you wanted some snippet from it.

Firstly, here's the slides in PPTX, PPT and PDF format.

Then there's a bunch of demos that I did - note, demo code tends to be hacky code because it's not meant to be shared with anyone but I'm sharing here so apply some caution around how much you read into this.

Firstly, I had a little WPF application that I added some queries to in order to display some information about my current network capabilities. That application can be downloaded below by clicking below;

NetworkInterface based WPF Application with LINQ Queries

Secondly, I did a bunch of stuff with XML. I've tried to capture all of that in the zip file that can be downloaded below.

LINQ and XML in CS and VB

Finally, I did some stuff with SQL Server. I've tried to capture all of that in the zip file that can be downloaded below. Note - I'm always messing around with my Northwind database so if this doesn't work for you then you will need to refresh the LINQ to SQL diagram from your Northwind DB and then add the stored procs and function that I used in to that project (I've include the SP's and the function in the project)

LINQ to SQL

Hope you enjoyed the talk and thanks for coming along to the Launch.