Taking the mystery out of Monads

GREAT VIDEO on Channel9 by Brian Beckman

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=358968

Linq to SQL

Another great post with sample code.

http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com/2008/01/being-in-in-linq-to-sql-or-how-i.html

Another great article on using log parser

http://geekswithblogs.net/drewby/articles/LogParser.aspx

Datasets and C#

http://www.codersource.net/csharp_dataset_better_use.html

LINQPad

This is really cool:

http://www.linqpad.net/

Tired of querying in antiquated SQL?

Well, you don’t have to!  LINQPad lets you interactively query SQL databases in a modern query language: LINQ.  Kiss goodbye to SQL Management Studio!

LINQPad supports everything in C# 3.0 and Framework 3.5:

• LINQ to SQL
• LINQ to Objects
• LINQ to XML

LINQPad is also a terrific tool for learning LINQ: it comes preloaded with 200 examples from the recently released C# 3.0 in a Nutshell.  There’s no better way to experience the coolness of LINQ and functional programming.

LINQPad is free and needs no installation: just download and run.  The executable is only 1MB and is self-updating.