If you don’t know what eager loading is, Jump to “ What’s eager loading? ”. Eager Loading Syntax If you are eager loading Products for example in a typical (Categories 1<->* Products) relation, the standard syntax would like: DbDataContext.Categories.Include(“Products”) What is the problem with...

The second day of DevDays and 5 more interesting sessions to follow. At 9:15 the first session of this day started it called “Functional Programming in C#” from Oliver Sturm . In this session we dived deep in to C# with a lot of C# 3.5 LINQ and lambda expressions. The question was, why would we use functional...

Version: VS2008 SP1 The sample code at the bottom of this post shows you how to upload files and store them in a binary column in SQL using ASP.net webforms and LINQ. S ee this post if you wish to upload an excel file, extract data from the cells and store them in a SQL table instead. We start by creating...

First day of DevDays 2010, I was looking forward to DevDays to see all the new things like VS2010, .NET4.0, MVC2. The lineup for this year is again better than the year before, there are 100+ session of all kind of topics like Cloud, Database, Mobile, SharePoint, User experience, Visual Studio, Web....

I did a primer on using WCF Data Services in my last post . One of the things I’m seeing about the posts regarding WCF Data Services using OData is that they used Entity Framework to do the DAL work. So a lot of underlying work gets hidden by using EF. Here is a post that allows you to connect to any...