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 ...

LINQ with Entity Framework has become so common that, when I'm looking at a client's code I'm finding some pretty scary-looking LINQ queries running against Entity Framework. Since I'm a big fan of ...

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Peter Vogel introduces a new column on application development in the real world, and begins by advocating for Language Integrated Query. Welcome to Practical .NET, a new column offering how-to ...

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) ...

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 ...

So I've got this large dataset...call it t_Data, it's pretty easy to cut it up with a where condition in LINQ, but I want to be able to interrogate another dataset....call it q_Category (which ...

I am not really even sure how to Google search for this, as I am not really sure how to formulate the question, so I'll try and give an example. I am using LINQ-XML to parse an input file that I want ...