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 ...

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 ...

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from ...

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) ...

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 a ...

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 ...