LINQ to SQL continues to be a top contender in the .NET object/relational mapping tool market despite Microsoft's promotion of the Entity Framework as one of the "Pillars of SQL Server 2008: Dynamic ...

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In the previous article titled "LINQ – An easy introduction" we saw how LINQ works with data and objects. In this article which is a part of a series, we will develop a very simple inventory ...

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 ...

TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX: VS 2008 [Express] SP-1, VB.NET 9.0, C# 3.0, SQL Server 2005/2008, ASP.NET LINQ to SQL celebrated its first anniversary on Nov. 11, 2008. As Microsoft's first object/relational ...