August 29th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST)

Modern applications operate on data in several different forms: Relational tables, XML documents, and in-memory objects. Each of these domains can have profound differences in semantics, data types, and capabilities, and much of the complexity in today’s applications is the result of these mis-matches. In this talk, we will explain how Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 aim to unify the programming models through LINQ c