That's cool and I'm surprised that I never noticed it, but how is this an Easter Egg?

By the way, I'll take your word for it that it's actually there. I don't have VS 2008 at work (still working in 2005), but I'll check it out when I get home.

Directly from the ADO.NET team blog:

"We’re making significant investments in the Entity Framework such that as of .NET 4.0 the Entity Framework will be our recommended data access solution for LINQ to relational scenarios. We are listening to customers regarding LINQ to SQL and will continue to evolve the product based on feedback we receive from the community as well."

People need to learn how to read before posting these ridiculous blog posts.

Man, if it was a snake, it would have bit me. Didn't see the link at the top: http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2008/10/29/update-on-linq-to-sql-and-linq-to-entities-roadmap.aspx

Did I miss something? When did Microsoft say they were abandoning LINQ to SQL?

It's about time!

Is the link working for anybody else?

The swirly blue thing? Sorry, but that's ugly!

Am I missing something or do they not have it on codeplex?

I would love to have VSTS, but it's so expensive that most companies I know of aren't spending the money.

I guess it could be good for quick answers to a problem, but I wonder how active the site will stay. Honestly, it's too chaotic for me. I feel like there is way too much content and it's coming way too fast. I much prefer the structure and organization of a good online development forum or Usenet.

Maybe your style sucks! ;)

Interesting. I know they're working on some beta stuff over there at CodePlex. Is this a new thing?

I saw that last night on an NFL opening night commercial. I wonder what Bill Gates is really like in real life.

Any idea how often these are updated?

Are you serious? They start a new process when you open a new tab? If so, that's just ridiculous.

I played around with Chrome last night for a few minutes and I agree with M.Gorney that it feels half-baked. I really don't understand why people have put so much emphasis on Google. Other than their search engine, they haven't released anything that was that was impressive to me. I like GMail, but it had a really slow start and I still don't care for the UI (though I have to admit that it's better than Hotmail or Yahoo). Like anything else Google has released, it feels rushed out the door and for no good reason.

If somebody is going to release another browser, it really needs to be innovative in some way. From my first impression, it feels like Chrome is far behind even IE7 in functionality. And Firefox 3.0.x is so far out of its league that you can't even compare them.

Ok, stupid question. What are those HTML helper methods for? Do they render as client-side JavaScript validation?