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 ...

When I was writing my review of Visual Studio 2008, I built a little console application that generated JavaScript data structures from a SQL Server 2000 database in C#, using LINQ to SQL. As I ...

To make LINQ technologies work, the C# and VB.NET teams have added many features to the languages that support querying objects. Here is a simple C# example that queries an array for numbers divisible ...

Complex queries can be solved with a combination of simpler LINQ queries, anonymous objects and the Group/By/Into clauses. Using Group/By/Into will also give you the best possible performance for ...

I'm working on a side project in which I'll be using LINQ to populate some controls (TreeView, GridView, DropDownList). Based on the size of the data to which I am binding, I figure it will be ...

You may not have heard about Microsoft's new brainchild, Language Integrated Query (LINQ). If you did hear about it, you may have yawned and put it down as yet another new technology searching for ...

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 ...