Over this last week I’ve been working with pre-existing build scripts that previously pulled from VSS to move to TFS. After we get the build running we’ll start looking at getting it into TFS Build, but for now the goal was to just migrate the code and make sure we could keep building. While converting the VSS MSBuild Community Tasks over to use TFS command line calls (tf.exe) I was dismayed by the fact that the command line help starts up the Help documentation in a window.
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With .Net 3.5 coming out soon many developers are hyped about the Language Integrated Query, or LINQ features. In a nutshell LINQ allows you to write queries within your managed code that can run across in-memory objects, databases, XML, and more. You can even execute a query across a set of objects and join against a XML document to produce your results. If you haven’t heard much about LINQ then I highly suggest reading over the link above and then take a peek at what’s possible via the 101 LINQ Samples page.