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Understanding LINQ to SQL Query Translations by ScottGu

I posted two blog posts last weekend about using LINQ to easily perform data access against a database. Several people have asked me for more details on LINQ to SQL since then. Sahil Malik made some excellent posts earlier this summer that go into more detail about LINQ to SQL (aka DLINQ) and how it...

LINQ to SQL Debug Visualizer by ScottGu

Probably the biggest programming model improvement being made in .NET 3.5 is the work being done to make querying data a first class programming concept. We call this overall querying programming model "LINQ", which stands for .NET Language Integrated Query . Developers can use LINQ with any data source...

LINQ to SQL (Part 8 - Executing Custom SQL Expressions) by ScottGu

Over the last few weeks I've been writing a series of blog posts that cover LINQ to SQL. LINQ to SQL is a built-in O/RM (object relational mapper) that ships in the .NET Framework 3.5 release, and which enables you to model relational databases using .NET classes. You can use LINQ expressions to query...

LINQ to SQL (Part 6 - Retrieving Data Using Stored Procedures) by ScottGu

Over the last few weeks I've been writing a series of blog posts that cover LINQ to SQL. LINQ to SQL is a built-in O/RM (object relational mapper) that ships in the .NET Framework 3.5 release, and which enables you to model relational databases using .NET classes. You can use LINQ expressions to query...

LINQ to SQL (Part 4 - Updating our Database) by ScottGu

Over the last few weeks I've been writing a series of blog posts that cover LINQ to SQL. LINQ to SQL is a built-in O/RM (object relational mapper) that ships in the .NET Framework 3.5 release, and which enables you to easily model relational databases using .NET classes. You can use LINQ expressions...

Slides + Samples Posted from my TechEd LINQ Talk by ScottGu

One of the highlights for me of my recent trip to TechEd NZ and Australia was the opportunity I had to create and present a new "Building Data Driven ASP.NET Web Applications using LINQ" talk. LINQ is a super cool new technology, and is going to have an absolutely enormous impact on .NET developers and...

LINQ to SQL (Part 5 - Binding UI using the ASP:LinqDataSource Control) by ScottGu

Over the last few weeks I've been writing a series of blog posts that cover LINQ to SQL. LINQ to SQL is a built-in O/RM (object relational mapper) that ships in the .NET Framework 3.5 release, and which enables you to easily model relational databases using .NET classes. You can use LINQ expressions...

Using LINQ to SQL (Part 1) by ScottGu

Over the last few months I wrote a series of blog posts that covered some of the new language features that are coming with the Visual Studio and .NET Framework "Orcas" release. Here are pointers to the posts in my series: Automatic Properties, Object Initializer and Collection Initializers Extension...

LINQ to SQL (Part 9 - Using a Custom LINQ Expression with the <asp:LinqDatasource> control) by ScottGu

Over the last few weeks I've been writing a series of blog posts that cover LINQ to SQL. LINQ to SQL is a built-in O/RM (object relational mapper) that ships in the .NET Framework 3.5 release, and which enables you to model relational databases using .NET classes. You can use LINQ expressions to query...

Building and using a LINQ for SQL Class Library with ASP.NET 2.0 by ScottGu

In my previous posts on doing data access using LINQ and ASP.NET, I used the built-in SQLMetal command-line utility to automatically generate the data model classes for my LINQ data classes. Recently I've been using the LINQ for SQL (aka DLINQ) designer to define my data models instead, and have been...
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