Many database developers have loudly bemoaned Microsoft's decision late last year to marginalize LINQ to SQL in favor of its ADO.NET Entity Framework. Hence there will be no major emphasis on LINQ to ...

At our upcoming VSLive! conference in San Francisco, solutions architect, consultant and Accentient trainer Perry Birch will be presenting a session on "Practical LINQ to SQL -- NTier Web Application ...

One of the most frequently asked questions from new Windows Phone developers is how to store data. Prior to Windows Phone 7.5 (also known as "Mango"), the answer was that any data had to be manually ...

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In my last column (published in the February e-edition and the March print edition of DBTA), I reviewed the overall coding landscape for SQL Server with special focus on LINQ to SQL, a new technology ...

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LINQ (Language Integrated Query) is a query execution pipeline that adds query capabilities to languages targeted at the managed environment of .Net. LINQ to SQL is an ORM (Object Relational Mapper) ...

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 able ...