LINQ to SQL Lives On Many database developers have loudly bemoaned Microsoft's decision late last year to marginalize LINQ to SQL in favor of its ADO.NET Entity Framework. The angst played out as many ...

Executing this query in SQL returns results such as: Now if you drop the view from your data model and re-add it, EF will pick up the real primary key column that is labeled NID and your LINQ ...

The rest of the LINQ expression works fine, you can type in Literal string values and it works It seems that you can dynamically set the .Where and the .OrderBy, but something is going wrong on ...

In a talkback comment to my review, “CSharper” pointed me at one solution to finding the LINQ equivalent of a SQL “ SELECT DISTINCT ” query: tack on a LINQ .Distinct () method call to the ...

jxl [/url]":3jmldgtk]I'm comfortable writing SQL and I'm comfortable with method chaining in LINQ, but I am not comfortable writing in the query syntax style of LINQ.

Test-Drive SQL Server Data Services: C# 3.0, LINQ to XML: Autogenerate REST XML Entity Templates: Listing 1 A SqlDataReader instance and LINQ to XML functional construction combine to enable ...