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...allora consolatevi con la Visual Basic 9.0 LINQ Technology Preview :)
Potete infatti scaricare una pre-alpha-beta-quellochevipare (insomma, quelle che MS chiama Technology Preview) del futuro compilatore di Visual Basic 9.0 e testare (all'interno di VS 2005) le nuove caratteristiche del linguaggio.

Quali??? Questa, ad esempio:

'NEW: Basic query
Dim primes = {1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13}
Dim primesUnderFive = Select p _
                      From p In primes Where p < 5

' Print results of basic query
For Each item As Integer In primesUnderFive
   Console.WriteLine("Prime Number: " & item.ToString)
Next

Si chiama Query Comprehensions.
Dove trovare tutto la Technolgy Preview di VB 9.0 e un po' di documentazione al riguardo?
Qui: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/Future/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/vb9overview.asp

Qui, invece, trovate un interessante articolo su Visual Basic 9.0 e LINQ:
http://www.ftponline.com/vsm/2006_04/magazine/features/rjennings/default.aspx

Trovate i link per i download qui

Sono giunte numerose richieste per fare una tappa, più a sub di Napoli, del corso "Learn & Get: da Visual Basic 6.0 a Visual Basic 2005".
Siamo indecisi se farla Bari o a Palermo.

Se siete interessati, dite la vostra votando la città preferita

Sono disponibili le Community Technology Preview (marzo 2006) dei seguenti prodotti:

SQL Server Express Edition with SP1 (SQLEXPR.EXE)
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (SQL Server Express) is a powerful and reliable data management product that delivers rich features, data protection, and performance for embedded application clients, light Web applications, and local data stores. Designed for easy deployment and rapid prototyping, SQL Server Express is available at no cost, and you are free to redistribute it with applications. If you need more advanced database features, then SQL Server Express can be seamlessly upgraded to more sophisticated versions of SQL Server.

SQL Server Express Edition with Advanced Services (SQLEXPR_ADV.EXE)
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services is a new, free version of SQL Server Express that includes additional features for reporting and advanced text based searches. In addition to the features offered in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, SQL Server Express with Advanced Services offers additional components that include SQL Server Management Studio Express (SSMSE), support for full-text catalogs, and support for viewing reports via report server. SQL Server Express Edition with Advanced Services also includes SP1.

SQL Server Express Edition Toolkit (SQLEXPR_TOOLKIT.EXE)
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Toolkit (SQL Server Express Toolkit) provides tools and resources to manage SQL Server Express and SQL Server Express Edition with Advanced Services. It also allows creating reports by using SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (SSRS).

SQL Server Management Studio Express (SQLServer2005_SSMSEE.msi)
SQL Server Management Studio Express (SSMSE) provides a graphical management tool for managing SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services instances. SSMSE can also manage relational engine instances created by any edition of SQL Server 2005. SSMSE cannot manage Analysis Services, Integration Services, SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition, Notification Services, Reporting Services, or SQL Server Agent.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=57856cdd-da9b-4ad0-9a8a-f193ae8410ad&displaylang=en