Luís just broke the news on our LINQ with C# book. I was honored with the invitation from Luís to write this book with him for FCA , for which he has already published a few books [ ^ ] [ ^ ] [ ^ ] before. This will be an entry level book in Portuguese targeted to anyone wanting to learn LINQ with C#...

In the past I presented another possible use for the using keyword: as hints on LINQ . I’ve been giving some thought about this lately and refined my proposal. var q = from person in personCollection using MyEnumerableExtensions group person by person.LastName into g using new MyOtherComparer () orderby...

(This was pointed out to me by Frans Bouma and explained by Jon Skeet ) Imagine you have this set of classes: public class A { public virtual string P { get { return "A" ; } } } public class B : A { } public class C : B { public override string P { get { return "C" ; } } } And this class: public static...

This morning I did a Silverlight 2 talk at Microsoft Montreal, during a half-day briefing called Building Compelling Websites on the Microsoft Platform . That was a 1 hour talk to present Silverlight 2, DeepZoom, Expression Blend and create from scratch a Silverlight 2 application which consume LINQ...

Hello All, UPDATE 20080409: Another site has launced, check out www.betts.com.au !!! Thanks Stefan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally our first ASP.NET 3.5 website went live today, there are 2 more to come but this one is the only one live atm: http://www.zushoe...

This books title does not lie, it is LINQ and it is quickly. This book is an excellent introduction into the world of LINQ and also a great reference once you get your feet wet. The start of the book gives you a brief introduction into what LINQ is and also an introduction into the new features in C#...

Update 20070330: By popular demand (well a couple people) I have included a sample project with everything needed to get started using this control. Basically just a sample web project, click here to get the zipped archive. You might notice things are done a little different, I include the System.ServiceModel...

Hi All, I am currently working on a project and we are using VB.NET, I am using LINQ to SQL for my data access. I have just implemented my search query and thought I would check the generated SQL's execution plan and found that the subtree cost was about 7.3. I know that I get different SQL between C#...

Like I said before , this as been on the back of my mind for a while. A while back I introduced a way to get the MethodInfo of a method in a strongly typed way using LINQ , and that's how I'm going to make Reflective Mocks more Natural . Well, it's as easy as this: public static class MockExtender {...

Hey All, Had a query which I was paging on the front end. I knew that a certain product was meant to be in my display but could not see it. But on page 2 a product would repeat itself. Odd, got into profiler and looked at the queries. The first page would get a select top 9 which would not do any orderby...