Hi all,
I've been reading a bit about Linq and WinFS lately. I installed WinFS beta 1 and looked at the examples. It all looks promissing, but WinFS will take about two more years before it will finally be released. I was wondering when the final version Linq will be released. My guess is it won't be in Visual Studio 2005, because that will be in two months. Am I right? Actually I don't even know what the status of the project is at this moment. Are the current technology previews 'beta 1' or is this still 'alpha'?
Something else I want to know is how Linq will fit on WinFS. When both Linq and WinFS are final, will WinFS schema's and DLinq schema's fit together? Can WinFS schema's and / or DLinq schema's be generated based on existing class-structures?
I will try the Linq Technology Preview for C# soon. But when I read about Linq, I wanted to ask these questions for getting a better perspective on the project and for getting an idea about the roll out time. Maybe someone can help me out here.
Greets!
Heathcliff