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Imagine, you're sitting at your desk and you're using the Linq to Sql designer in VS.NET 2008 and you have, say, 50 entities in your model. You're happy about how things are progressing. It took a while to get the model set up, considering the wicked...
Update: I made a mistake in the first Linq to Sql query. It's not that slow as I previously posted. I didn't filter on country, which made it pull the rows of all 91 customers into memory instead of the 11. Fetching 91 customer rows, 818 order rows and...
(This is part of an on-going series of articles, started here ) Last time I talked about implementing Single. It turned out to be fairly straightforward, but as I explained in the previous episode, it's a weird method and has different behavior related...
(Updated Wednesday 30-jan-2008). It was mentioned that we would implement 'Skip' as well, although we already had a paging method added, TakePage(). After carefull analysis, we decided not to implement Skip for now. The reason is that it can lead to confusing...
(This is part of an on-going series of articles, started here ) In the previous post in this series , I mentioned that I had completed the work on all the major parts of a SELECT query. SELECT is what a Linq provider is all about (as Linq queries are...
In Steve Yegge 's latest blog post , he argues that the size of a code base is the code's worst enemy. Today, Jeff Atwood wrote a follow-up with the same sentiments. Now, both bloggers are great writers and have almost always insightful articles. However...
(This is part of an on-going series of articles, started here ) Whoa, almost a month without an update! The truth is that I wanted to finish GroupBy support before posting another article in this ongoing series, and it took almost 3 weeks to get it right...
Jeff Atwood posted a nice blog post today about The Two Types of Programmers . I always like to refer to programmers by using the term 'Software Engineer', when they're software engineering. The term 'programmer' is often associated with a 'code monkey...
(This is part of an on-going series of articles, started here ) So, how is the state of Linq to LLBLGen Pro ? Well, it's getting more and more the state I have in mind. The codebase today can handle SelectMany, GroupJoin, DefaultIfEmpty, elements at unexpected...
(edited. s/proof/prove/gc and some sentences which were 'out of wack' have been corrected as well) Phil Haack today posted an article about Writing Testable Code Is About Managing Complexity . He says: Of course, when I'm done un-bunching my knickers...
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