" If you are a Server Core fan, and wished you could host ASP.NET websites in Server Core, then feel better, you wish had come true. Windows Server 2008 R2’s Server Core will have .NET Framework which means, ASP.NET too. This is a big news for all those wanted to deploy Server Core, but stopped...

Amid the debate about which is better and have more future (two things that not necessarily go together) between LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework, one thing they have in common is the fact that Oracle is in “no comment” mode about both of them. It’s like Oracle would be expecting that the lack of its...

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...

Yesterday, we implemented a simple LINQ to Objects pattern. In our post , we overwrote the  data source , if you can remember, all the return value were added a tail as "LINQ". But this seems useless, in the NFlickr project, we need to send the filter to the Flickr service and get the...

Yesterday, we sort of created a baby step of a LINQ to anything implementation ; We stopped at the place to implement the interface IQueryProvider, the most important method in this interface for us is IQueryable<TElement> CreateQuery<TElement>(System.Linq.Expressions.Expression expression...

Yesterday, Fred asked me if I could help him to convert C# code to LINQ. The solution may not obvious to find unless you know LINQ well. I will reproduce here the solution I gave Fred. Whether the LINQ version of the code is easier to read than the original one is arguable. The purpose here is more to...

We knew there are at least 3 implementation in .Net 3.5, they are LINQ to Objects, LINQ to XML and LINQ to SQL. I don't believe Microsoft will create different pattern for those. In my current open source project NFlickr , because I have thousands of the fotos at flickr.com , so I don't want to get everything...

In the most of the case, we can use the LINQ to filter out a list of the object collection. But if we are designing a framework which means we will use the interface talk to each other. The collection has to be the container of a set of interface which will need some tricks to finish this job. The interface...

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...

So with the recent news of LINQ to SQL going DOA a lot of those who have developed applications around it are probably hurting. I myself was shocked to hear that Microsoft would do such a foolish thing. This is one of the things that turns off people from using .NET and other Microsoft technologies....