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• Creating Collections of Entity Objects using LINQ and Field Method

  Monday, February 25, 2013

  .NET Field Method LINQ

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  Let’s now look at another advantage of using a DataTable. A lot of developers today are used to using LINQ. After loading data into a DataTable you can iterate using a foreach statement, or you can use LINQ to create a collection of entity objects. The DataRow class has an extension method called Field that allows you to check the data and return either a null or the real data value. Of course this means you have to use Nullable types for your properties in your class. Below is the definition of a Product class that uses all Nullable types.

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• Creating Collections of Entity Objects using LINQ

  Monday, February 11, 2013

  .NET ADO.NET LINQ

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  As discussed in my last two blog posts you have a variety of ways to create collections of Entity classes. Using a DataSet or DataTable is a little slower than using a DataReader, but in most cases the difference is in milliseconds so in a real world app this difference would not be a killer. For instance, in my sample data I was loading 6,261 records from the Product table discussed in the last blog post and it took 45 milliseconds on average to load those records into an entity collection using a DataTable. It took only 30 milliseconds on average to load the same entity collection using a DataReader. The rendering of that data would probably take longer than that, so you can choose which one you wish to use.

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