Visual Studio Magazine

Combining LINQ Queries (or, When to Call ToList)

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 ...
InfoQ

Implementing NOLOCK with LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities

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Ars Technica

Any way to dynamically choose fields in a LINQ query expression?

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 ...
InfoWorld

A Working Distinct LINQ Query in C#

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 ...
Visual Studio Magazine

To Think in LINQ

If you start "thinking in LINQ" you'll get more done with less code, and what you write will be simpler than using SQL. Switching to LINQ and the Entity Framework (EF) means that code you'll write for ...
Ars Technica

[LINQ to SQL] Filtering

I'm working on an ASP.NET application in which I'd like to provide the user with some filters for a TreeView control. I'm building the TreeView using a LINQ to SQL query to a view in the database. For ...
InfoQ

Is LINQ to SQL Truly Dead?

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