LINQ to SQL

Windows Phone "Mango" includes a lot of cool, exciting new features that users will be showing to all of their friends. Of course, there are some features so behind the scenes that users will never really be aware of them—but developers will. One such new feature is the addition of…

Watch recorded sessions from an in-person Microsoft event around .NET Data Access. This video takes a closer look at LINQ to SQL. The Microsoft .NET Framework is a robust development platform with an enriched ecosystem of tools, components and features enabling developers to enhance their skill…

Urbanization and building construction along with overhaul and modernization of the city’s zoning code have converged with the obsolescence of the existing building, planning and zoning business processes forcing the largest IT project for the city in two decades. The new system was built from…

This session will demonstrate practical LINQ tips you can use to improve the performance of an application. We’ll see the advantages of deferred execution, re-write correlated sub queries, and offer advice on choosing between the two flavors of LINQ syntax. In addition, we’ll spend time looking…

The C# language and the .NET platform introduced many new features to support language integrated query. In this session, we’ll look at using these LINQ related features to build rich, intention revealing logic. We’ll dive into the magic of expression trees and use them to implement type-safe…

Watch recorded sessions from an in-person Microsoft event around .NET Data Access. This video is an introduction to the Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework.The Microsoft .NET Framework is a robust development platform with an enriched ecosystem of tools, components and features enabling…

Watch recorded sessions from an in-person Microsoft event around .NET Data Access. This video is an introduction to Language Integrated Query (LINQ).The Microsoft .NET Framework is a robust development platform with an enriched ecosystem of tools, components and features enabling…

Microsoft is all about options, and there's no shortage of options when it comes to data access!  You've got ADO.NET DataSets and DataReaders, LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services just to name a few.  Each of these technologies can be used - and abused - depending on…

Andrew Fryer of Microsoft UK talking to Mike Taulty at the UK SQL Bits conference around LINQ and the confusion that LINQ can cause amongst DBAs given that the term LINQ appears in conjunction with many things including quite a few that have nothing to do with databases