Suppose different departments in your business spoke different languages: English in software development, French in accounting, German in human resources, and Spanish in marketing. This scenario ...

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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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 (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) ...

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 ...

Do you think that LINQ is just another in a long series of odd Microsoft technologies? This database-meets-software-development technology could easily save your development staff time and avoid ...

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 ...