A while back, Scott Guthrie posted in the comments, that LINQ didn't support, or had trouble with Many to Many relationships. I'm not sure if the code-base has changed, or I haven't considered a full scope, but I've managed to get it to work, and it's slick! I'll jump straight to the magic here. I've...

Just a quick plug to the community. I've gotten to the Alpha release of my AuctionSite Starterkit and have published a release on Codeplex http://www.codeplex.com/auctionsk It's designed and produced in .net 3.5 utilizing some cool features like LINQ, the new Listview, the .NET membership, full CSS design...

This is odd. Have a test table with an id and name field no primary key was set as it was a quick test hack. Pulled the table into the LINQ Designer and noticed none of the validation partial methods were there. There was no OnnameChanged. Nowhere. After banging my head I made ID a primary key and boom...

SOLUTION: Ok fired up SQL profiler and see my problem, the non compiled query seems to not evaluate the query until you actualy use the object. But the Compiled version is hitting the database straight away. And as I was not using this data the non compiled version seemed fast as it never hit the database...

Hello all, I decided to implement tagging on my video library. My first solution was to use one table for the tags. Containing the videoid and tagname. When I loaded in 1,000,000 test tags this became slow to generate my tag cloud data. My new solution was to split up the tags into two tables. One containing...

I am beggining to really like to ease of using LINQ, On a project I am working on now I am storing configuration in an XML file like so: <sites> <site id="1" sitename="foo"> <domains> <domain url="www.foo.com" /> </domains> <settings> <setting key="foo" value="foo...

Needing a solution to fix transparent PNG in IE6 I came to start using one of the many javascript based solutions to do this. But when it came time to use ajax and populating new images in my postbacks this obviously broke. So I created a custom ASP.NET Component to help me do this... Control: I created...

Hi All, Have run into some issues with using default values in my SQL database with LINQ. I set AutoGenerated in the LINQ Designer to true which made use of my default values but this did not let me update this manually as it would throw an exception. I got a good suggestion from Young Joo to keep autogenerated...

Hey All, As you may know to postback a page to another page i..e Cross Page Postback you set the PostBackUrl to the page you would like to post the page to. But what if you would like to post back the page and have it open in a new window. I thought easy just set the forms target before it does the postback...

Hey All, Was having some wierd issues with asp.net ajax in firefox. If for example you put a textbox and a button in an updatepanel and put in a value and click the button. Then you hit F5, in IE the value will be gone, but in FireFox the value is still there. This is due to firefox caching input values...