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• LINQ to SQL vs LINQ to Entities - decisions from ADO.NET team

  To make a long story short: the ADO.NET team is now responsible of ADO.NET Entity Framework (including LINQ to Entities) and of LINQ to SQL (the last one was originally in charge of the a separated team, tied to the C# compiler). There is an evident overlapping Read More... Posted lunedì 3 novembre 2008 6.44 by Marco.Russo | 0 Comments Filed under: LINQ, Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL

• Use IEnumerable as a source for SqlBulkCopy

  Today I needed to use SqlBulkCopy class passing an IEnumerable<T> as a source instead of a IDataReader. Before writing something that someone else could have already written, I made some search and I found this interesting post that solve exactly Read More... Posted mercoledì 17 settembre 2008 17.05 by Marco.Russo | 0 Comments Filed under: LINQ

• Active queries LINQ

  Paul Stovell made a presentation on " Reactive Programming and Bindable LINQ " at TechED Australia 2008 (unfortunately, I was at the antipode in Italy, but the topic is really interesting). I didn't know there are projects somewhat similar to Bindable Read More... Posted giovedì 11 settembre 2008 19.12 by Marco.Russo | 0 Comments Filed under: LINQ

• Implement progress reporting and cancellation of LINQ queries

  Samuel Jack wrote two interesting posts discussing possible extension methods for LINQ. One is to implement progress reporting of a LINQ query. The other is to implement a way to cancel a running LINQ query . Both implementations are very simple and they Read More... Posted venerdì 18 luglio 2008 12.06 by Marco.Russo | 1 Comments Filed under: LINQ

• To join or not to join: that is the question (in LINQ)

  A comment received by one reader of Programming LINQ suggested me to underline a concept that is not so intuitive using LINQ, especially if you come from years of SQL coding. The idea is very simple. Two entities in LINQ might be related in the model. Read More... Posted mercoledì 18 giugno 2008 8.22 by Marco.Russo | 0 Comments Filed under: LINQ, Join

• Programming Microsoft LINQ finally shipping

  Finally, the Programming Microsoft LINQ book is available . We updated the website that supports our books ( http://programminglinq.com ), where you can download the sample code of the book. What’s in this book? Well, we tried to cover everything that Read More... Posted lunedì 26 maggio 2008 8.19 by Marco.Russo | 0 Comments Filed under: LINQ

• Corrections document update

  We just updated the corrections document for Introducing Microsoft LINQ book - if you downloaded the document between June 3 and August 20, the only new fix is an error in a listing at page 80. You can download the corrections document here . Read More... Posted martedì 21 agosto 2007 21.49 by Marco.Russo | 0 Comments Filed under: Corrections, LINQ