Rounding up a few StreamInsight blog posts

Wanted to throw together a quick list of a few recent blog posts on the AppFabric CAT team blog (where most of my more ‘technical’ articles end up), as well as some of my favorite articles that I’ve come across lately.

Working with LINQPad

• StreamInsight- Creating a LINQPad data context (the short version)
• StreamInsight- Creating a custom data context for LINQPad, chock full of weathery goodness (the not so short version)
• StreamInsight- Reading from other data contexts into StreamInsight with LINQPad
• StreamInsight- Understanding dynamic query composition
• StreamInsight- Where did that query result come from (using the Event Flow Debugger in LINQPad)

Query Patterns

• StreamInsight Query Patterns- Fun with process data – calculating the wind chill factor
• StreamInsight Query Pattern- Find the top category (using Order By, Take and ApplyWithUnion)

Minor, yet annoying error messages

• StreamInsight- Obscure LINQ error - Stream other than apply input stream is cannot be referenced
• StreamInsight- Obscure LINQ error - The field 'Key' of type 'IKey`1' either contains a nested me

Some recent favorites from around the web

• Permanent link to 5 Quick Steps For Trying Out StreamInsight with LINQPad
• StreamInsight Sequence Integration- Five Easy Pieces
• LINQ Macros

Working up my pipeline of interesting things to write about in the next month or two.  Other than finishing (almost there!) the rest of the “101 LINQ Samples” for StreamInsight, wondering if there’s any suggestions out there on interesting topics.