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 ...

The LINQ query operators' use of deferred execution when enumerating a set of elements is responsible in part for this advantage. When a LINQ query executes, it examines the minimum amount of ...

Processing a LINQ query in an application separate from the EF model that generated the query is a bad idea. The other reason is that the EF constantly monitors the changes made to LINQ objects (for ...

Parallel LINQ enables you to optimize your queries by splitting them into parts so as to execute these parts in parallel and hence boost the query performance. In this article we would discuss ...

This query doesn't fail....LINQ just thinks that strFieldNames is one new fieldname. If I don't use the new keyword, it just fails to compile.

If you haven’t encountered LINQ before, here’s the straight-up definition. LINQ is a kind of query language, sort of the same as SQL, but the syntax is a little different.