Desert Code Camp is back! After the success of the first one back in May, the organizers decided to do it all again. So, its back, and its next Saturday, October 28th.

The organizers acted on some of the feedback from last time, so the sessions will be longer and there will be travel-time between them. Sadly that meant having less sessions, but hopefully it will help folks get the most out of the time available.

So, if you're in Arizona or can otherwise make it to Tempe (a suburb of Phoenix) then check it out:

http://www.desertcodecamp.com/

I will be doing two talks:

• Writing a custom LINQ search engine
  Learn how to write a binding that will let you use LINQ to support custom repositories.
• XLINQ Deep Dive
  Learn how to get the most out of XLINQ. Also learn when to use XLINQ vs existing technologies such as XmlDocument or XSLT.

For the first talk I will show a LINQ binding for quering Active Directory, which lets you write queries like this:

// find all people in AD whose last name is Smith or first name is John
var q = from e in AD.Users where e.LastName == "Smith" || e.FirstName == "John" select e;

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(for those that haven't heard of it, LINQ or Language Integrated Query is a technology that is part of the next release of .NET, and is used to query database or XML documents using extended C# or Visual Basic language syntax)