As I mentioned Monday and in my Visual Studio 2008 review, I've been struggling with the finer points of LINQ queries. In a talkback comment to my review, "CSharper" pointed me at one solution to ...

As I was testing the LINQ to SQL functionality in Visual Studio 2008, I found myself missing the SQL Query Builder. For the relatively simple three-table inner join SELECT queries I needed, I was ...

Processing a LINQ query in an application separate from the EF model that generated the query is a bad idea. The other reason is that the EF constantly monitors the changes made to LINQ objects (for ...

Moving property values from one object to another can be tricky; DevTrends has a set of extensions that can help. In a recent C# Corner column Patrick Steele discussed AutoMapper, which is a fabulous ...

You may not have heard about Microsoft's new brainchild, Language Integrated Query (LINQ). If you did hear about it, you may have yawned and put it down as yet another new technology searching for ...

Twice in the past couple of months I’ve gotten tripped up by the same data issue when using LINQ to Entities in the .NET framework. I create a simple view in my database which performs some ...