Minimize Office 2007′s Ribbon

The Ribbon helps you access more of the commands you need, when you need them. But if you want to see the Ribbon only when you need it, you can minimize it so that only the tab names appear all the time. To minimize the Ribbon in any program, double-click any tab name, or press CTRL+F1. You can also right-click any tab name for the option to minimize the Ribbon.

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Linq to SQL vs ADO.NET Performance

During my ILL Lab tag team with Ervin about Linq to SQL, quite a number of attendees asked us about Linq to SQL performance compared to ADO.NET SQLConnection. I couldn’t provide too much information but I remember Rico Mariani’s blog on Linq performance so I asked them to search for it. Search no more, here is the direct link, 5 parts of them about detail study on Linq to SQL performance.