If you don't handle them, we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.

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You can query pretty much anything. LINQ works with any collection you have in the .Net Framework today. It's a single programming model for data where the things you know in this domain just magically apply for another domain.

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My particular interest for the past couple of years has been to really think deeply about the big impedance mismatch we have between programming languages, C# in particular, and the database world, like SQL?or, for that matter, the XML world, like XQuery and those languages that exist.

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We know that our underlying technology was not rich enough, ... It was not a particularly friendly world to program in.

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I absolutely think it will, because it makes .Net a more appealing proposition.

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The dream is to have a single programming model.

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Not only does this scenario require familiarity with several programming languages, but it also requires a mastery of the application programming interfaces that bridge the different domains, such as ADO.NET or Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC).

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Your choice of programming model also is your choice of programming model, so to speak.

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The .NET framework was built really to support XML Web services.

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