I finally got around to trying the Sept. CTP of Orcas. I loaded up the VPC images on VPC7 Beta (which seems to perform much better than VPC2004). If this is going to be the way that MS is going to release CTPs in the future here are a few suggestions: Don't have undo disks enabled. This just slows things...

I finally got around to trying the Sept. CTP of Orcas. I loaded up the VPC images on VPC7 Beta (which seems to perform much better than VPC2004). If this is going to be the way that MS is going to release CTPs in the future here are a few suggestions: Don't have undo disks enabled. This just slows things...

When debugging LINQ to SQL code, did you wish you could easily see the SQL that gets executed? Of course there is the DataContext.Log property that is available for that. You can assign any TextWriter to this property. Console.Out is a good candidate for example, but it doesn't help much for web applications...

Often, when you try to find out how to write the correct LINQ query you need, you end up being confused because it becomes too complex. In such situations, you should remember that the let clause is here to help you. Let's see is an example from the official LINQ forum. Someone asked how to query the...

Yesterday, a developer asked in the LINQ in Action forum and in Microsoft's official LINQ forum how to write a LINQ to SQL query that would return random records from the database. It's not something built-in. There is no Random query operator provided by Microsoft. In addition, it can't be done simply...

Despite what a lot of people still believe, LINQ is not all about SQL and databases. I guess it will take time before everybody gets used to it. With his 7 tricks to simplify your programs with LINQ , Igor Ostrovsky provides great examples of small but elegant uses of LINQ (to Objects). In his post,...