A while ago when I was learning LINQ I searched the web for a 'cheat sheet'. I needed a single document that covered most of the common scenarios w.r.t LINQ so that I would not need to google every time I was writing LINQ queries. I found one very good one : http://aspnetresources.com/blog/linq_sqo__cheat_sheet...

I'm almost always using C# in my .NET projects, unless I'm doing Office automation where the VB-way of dealing with optional parameters helps out making the code a bit cleaner. The last week we've been upgrading ASMX-clients to become WCF-clients for a number of old .NET 1.1 and 2.0 projects, and we...

Update 20081022: I have updated the articles code to reflect the bug fixes kindly suggested by Paco :). I have now used this in my project and have had no issues with it yet. The fixes included clearing order by's on the count query and also returning the count as an Int64. Cheers Stefan -----------...

Innehållsförteckning Overview LINQ to Objects LINQ to XML LINQ to SQL LINQ over DataSet LINQ to XSD Standard Query Operators Appendix A: Building an ASP.NET Application Appendix B: LINQ with Outlook I LINQ Quickly från Packt Publishing går N Satheesh Kumar igenom de flesta funktioner som finns i Linq...

This is my first project on LINQ, and I got surprised on how tuff it is to build join queries. But the trick is to understand how the LINQ to Entities work. I will discuss in this blog some of the complicated queries that I built and how I built them. But let's first understand how the LINQ to Entities...

One of the best things about being a programmer is new technologies,  taking a look at exciting new approaches to everyday tasks.  The .NET world is continually growing, in fact it was only 6-months ago that the 3.5 Framework was released giving you new tools such as LINQ, WPF, and Silverlight...

Hello All, UPDATE 20080409: Another site has launced, check out www.betts.com.au !!! Thanks Stefan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally our first ASP.NET 3.5 website went live today, there are 2 more to come but this one is the only one live atm: http://www.zushoe...

Hello, If you have read my posts before where I was complaining about VB generated sub optimal SQL when using nullable columns in your where clauses, I came to the conclusion I was being silly and not using .Value on those nullable fields in my queries. I stumbled across this post today: http://blogs...

O/RM Vs Stored Procedures. Which is the best approach? For the last few years, many developers and architects are engage in a series of debates about ORM Vs Stored Procedures. Many of them argue for ORM and others are arguing for stored procedures. The interesting thing is that people with highly object...

This books title does not lie, it is LINQ and it is quickly. This book is an excellent introduction into the world of LINQ and also a great reference once you get your feet wet. The start of the book gives you a brief introduction into what LINQ is and also an introduction into the new features in C#...