Developers are reckoning with the fact that Microsoft's LINQ to SQL data access protocol is getting short shrift in Redmond these days as the company continues to shore up its focus on the second ...

LINQ to SQL classes that are mapped to database tables and views are called *entity classes*. The entity class maps to a record, whereas the individual properties of an entity class map to the ...

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. Hence there will be no major emphasis on LINQ to ...

Chuck Hanson started feeling uneasy earlier this month when he heard rumblings that one of Microsoft's year-old data-access protocols, LINQ to SQL, might be sidelined in favor of an even newer ...

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At our upcoming VSLive! conference in San Francisco, solutions architect, consultant and Accentient trainer Perry Birch will be presenting a session on "Practical LINQ to SQL -- NTier Web Application ...

I will be using C# and Linq to solve this year’s Advent of Code challenges. The idea would be write pipeline methods and try and solve the problem in big linq expression. I would be using LINQPAD.

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) ...

Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is one of the most powerful features in C#, allowing developers to write more readable and concise code for data manipulation and querying. LINQ bridges the gap ...