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...

Building functions instead of expression trees. The functional programming features of the latest versions of C# allow developers to harness a very expressive programming paradigm to solve challenges in new, elegant ways. Two of the very interesting new features are the “Func<>” delegate and the...

Yesterday I posted an entry describing a method for building functions as opposed to building expressions to get a more succinct syntax, and in general a more functional approach. There was a touch of reflection in there though, so I wasn’t too sure what the performance would be like. Even though the...

Scott Mitchell in this month issue of MSDN Magazine has a cool post that has introduced a small tools about Data Mapping. Usually in enterprise applications developers don't use data access objects directly in other layers such as business layer. In this situations they map data access objects to Data...