We have seen that , while making general LINQ query provider , we have to implement IQueryable along with IQueryProvider. But what about the following query. var query = (from ph in context.Photos where ph.User == User && ph.PhotoSize == PhotoSize.Medium && ph.SearchText == "pocketpc...

It is now possible for LinqExtender implemented providers to have anonymous type in the select query. For example, consider the following SqlContext<Book> context = new SqlContext<Book>(); var query = (from q in context orderby q.LastUpdated descending select new { q.ISBN, q.Title}).Take...

Since, the first release of LinqExtender, I found quite a bit download and feedback from community around. I did plenty of changes and tried to make it as simple as possible for creating custom providers, without knowing a bit of reflection and expression parsing of the core framework. After the release...

I have released the new version of LinqExtender , it now support orderby queries Like I can easily do var query = from q in context where q.Id == 1 orderby q.Id descending select q; Also, I have uploaded a tiny linq to sql project named OpenLinqToSql which is built on LinqExtender and can be downloaded...

First of all happy new year, secondly my new article is just published at Dotnetslackers. This explains the detail of creating custom LINQ providers using Linqextender. You can check that out at http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/csharp/CreatingCustomLINQProviderUsingLinqExtender.aspx Moreover, I would...

Last week, I have released a patch for LinqExtender project at Codeplex. You can find the full feature list at release page. One issue that I will talk about here is orderby clause and its related in-memory sort. Service based apps are of fixed set of operations. Now, it might happen that you need the...

My Creating custom LINQ provider using LinqExtender is article of the day at asp.net . Those of you haven't check that out yet, I would suggest to have a look, it shows the easiest way of creating LINQ providers without any Expression parsing knowledge. Have Fun!!

In my last post, I have mentioned of creating Flickr app with Asp.net MVC. In recent update I have modified it with Asp.net MVC Preview 3. You can find a general reference about the project here . But in this post, I will say, what are the changes due to the new release and where to start especially...

Just a few days ago I have rolled up another patch for LinqExtender which is 1.3.2 , this is reported to me from a work item, especially to support the following query var query = from book in _context.Books where book.PublishedDate > someDate and book.PublishedDate < someDate select book; .csharpcode...

The greatest capability for LINQ is extensibility, My Linq.Flickr api shows how to create , add and quey photos from flickr , without knowing a bit of complexity that is underlying. But, there can be many other need for custom query providers like, Linq to facebook, Linq to youtube, etc. So, creating...