I finished up my talks at ASP.NET Connections yesterday and wanted to get the code posted as well as links for the additional topics covered in the Silverlight animation session.  Here they are: Building N-Tier ASP.NET Applications with LINQ Code Silverlight 2 Animations Code SilverlightFX Farseer...

Yesterday, Fred asked me if I could help him to convert C# code to LINQ. The solution may not obvious to find unless you know LINQ well. I will reproduce here the solution I gave Fred. Whether the LINQ version of the code is easier to read than the original one is arguable. The purpose here is more to...

So with the recent news of LINQ to SQL going DOA a lot of those who have developed applications around it are probably hurting. I myself was shocked to hear that Microsoft would do such a foolish thing. This is one of the things that turns off people from using .NET and other Microsoft technologies....

LINQ to SQL is fascinating - the more I work with it, the more I hate it, and then love it again all at the same time. Recently we had an issue while using it in a slightly older version of our N-Tier WCF application which uses LINQ to SQL as it's primary ORM solution (yes, I know). I'll try to briefly...

If you are using Linq to SQL, instead of writing regular Linq Queries, you should be using Compiled Queries . if you are building an ASP.NET web application that’s going to get thousands of hits per hour, the execution overhead of Linq queries is going to consume too much CPU and make your site slow...

Just wanted to post my SDev extension for linq HopeFully someone will find it helpfull Happy coding all DK Module Module1 <Runtime.CompilerServices.Extension()> _ Function StDev( Of T)( ByVal Values As System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable( Of T), ByVal selector As Func( Of T, Double )) Return...

Amazon.com: LINQ in Action: Fabrice Marguerie, Steve Eichert, Jim Wooley, Matt Warren: Books I think the expression is " don't cry over spilled milk... ", well when my son spilled milk on this book I almost cried. Why would you cry over a book you ask? There are many reasons.  Not only...

I want to tell you about List<T>.ForEach method and one of my famous blonde moments when I was debugging faulty code. LINQ makes it easy to query collections and that's why I like it a lot. Today is friday and weekend is coming. Let's relax and have some fun on me. Here's one proof how n00b I can...

Luís just broke the news on our LINQ with C# book. I was honored with the invitation from Luís to write this book with him for FCA , for which he has already published a few books [ ^ ] [ ^ ] [ ^ ] before. This will be an entry level book in Portuguese targeted to anyone wanting to learn LINQ with C#...

In July, I was invited by Mario Cardinal and Guy Barrette to register a session for their Visual Studio Talk Show podcast. This session is now online . During one hour, Guy, Mario and I discuss about LINQ in French . You can find the podcast here . I hope that you'll enjoy it and that it'll help you...