In the official Linq forum , Joe Albahari presents the reasons why he thinks Linq will succeed : LINQ syntax beats SQL syntax. SQL is flawed in that queries become exponentially difficult to write as their complexity grows. LINQ scales much better in this regard. Once you get used to it, it's hard...

In the official Linq forum , Joe Albahari presents the reasons why he thinks Linq will succeed : LINQ syntax beats SQL syntax. SQL is flawed in that queries become exponentially difficult to write as their complexity grows. LINQ scales much better in this regard. Once you get used to it, it's hard...

On Monday, I have announced an implementation of Linq for Amazon Web Services , that allows to query for books using the following syntax: var query = from book in new Amazon.BookSearch() where book.Title.Contains("ajax") && (book.Publisher == "Manning") && (book.Price <= 25) &&...

Soma announced that the naming scheme for the Linq technologies has been simplified: LINQ to ADO.NET includes: LINQ to DataSet LINQ to Entities LINQ to SQL (formerly DLinq) LINQ support for other data types includes: LINQ to XML (formerly XLinq) LINQ to Objects So long DLinq and XLinq... Welcome Linq...

Soma announced that the naming scheme for the Linq technologies has been simplified: LINQ to ADO.NET includes: LINQ to DataSet LINQ to Entities LINQ to SQL (formerly DLinq) LINQ support for other data types includes: LINQ to XML (formerly XLinq) LINQ to Objects So long DLinq and XLinq... Welcome Linq...

http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html This article was a great overview of many of the aspects of functional programming. With what Micosoft is doing to the CLR and C# and VB it would seem that functional programming is making advances into the main stream. His article has imaginary Java samples...

http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html This article was a great overview of many of the aspects of functional programming. With what Micosoft is doing to the CLR and C# and VB it would seem that functional programming is making advances into the main stream. His article has imaginary Java samples...

I've blogged a few times about LINQ and DLINQ over the last few weeks (and will be blogging a lot more about them in the future). You can read my overview post on LINQ here , and my introduction to DLINQ with ASP.NET here . Sahil Malik has also been working on a great LINQ/DLINQ tutorial series on his...

I've blogged a few times about LINQ and DLINQ over the last few weeks (and will be blogging a lot more about them in the future). You can read my overview post on LINQ here , and my introduction to DLINQ with ASP.NET here . Sahil Malik has also been working on a great LINQ/DLINQ tutorial series on his...

The original articles about the ADO.NET Entity Framework didn't stay online very long, but this time, two official documents are available: The ADO.NET Entity Framework Overview Next-Generation Data Access (Making the conceptual level real) These documents will give you an overview of what is coming...