This post is part of a small series on .NET ORM tools. You can find the rest of them here . As part of my continuing efforts to fragrantly misuse a number of .NET ORM tools, here is my effort with LinqToSql. The usual proviso applies: all of this is really quick and hacky, as it is just to get a little...

After playing around with LINQ-to-SQL today I noticed that the generated DataContext subclass exposes a Log property of type TextWriter . I initially replaced this with a StringWriter backed by a local StringBuilder variable so I could read the output, but then decided to take advantage of the fact that...

One of the features that enables LINQ to work are the implementation of Lambda expressions . Lambda expressions are basically another way of representing a function, and are used in LINQ to pass function pointers/delegates around without the verbosity of declaring function blocks. For example: public...