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...

Since Visual Studio 2008 SP1 you may have noticed 2 projects template for dynamic data: So what is the difference ? Dynamic Data Web Site / Dynamic Data Web Application: Uses a LINQ to SQL model and LinqDataSource controls. Dynamic Data Entities Web Site / Dynamic Data Entities Web Application: Uses...

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...

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 -----------...

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've decided that the LinqDataSource is my favorite datasource to use these days, because it allows me to consume my LinqToSql classes. My fondness of Linq to Sql also leads towards frustration when I try to figure out what's going on behind the scenes. One method for debugging is to use Sql Profiler...

Part II of the Southeast Valley .NET User Group ORM comparison happened yesterday.  It started off nice and calm but ended with a bang or two.  No there were no fight or arguments between the presenters or attendees but mother nature let loose on the Phoenix area last night.  Especially...

I decided to write a second part to my previous post on extending the IQueryable interface to create a really neat and organized data access layer with Linq To Sql. The cool thing about this practice is that it nicely separates individual filters for integration testing and then lets you combine them...

LINQ is Language Integrated query. It is a integral part of visual studio 2008 and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. It is object to database mapping technology thorough which you can query any type of collections of object,XML of database. Recently I am goggling about the LINQ and I have found following...