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Matt Warren, who provides the most detailed HOWTO for creating your own LINQ IQueryable provider , has now published a dedicated toolkit on CodePlex : IQToolkit is essential if you are building your own LINQ IQueryable provider. It contains common tools...
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Yesterday, Fred asked me if I could help him to convert C# code to LINQ. The solution may not obvious to find unless you know LINQ well. I will reproduce here the solution I gave Fred. Whether the LINQ version of the code is easier to read than the original...
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I'll be at TechEd in Barcelona next week. I'll be at the Ask The Experts booths a few hours during the week. Feel free to come and say hello. I'll be available if you want to discuss about LINQ, the LINQ in Action book, WPF and Silverlight, my projects,...
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DevTeach Montréal will take place this year between December 1 and 5. I have the pleasure to take part to this event and speak in no less than five sessions! Here are my sessions, all in French: Tout d'abord une série de quatre sessions que j'ai le plaisir...
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In July, I was invited by Mario Cardinal and Guy Barrette to register a session for their Visual Studio Talk Show podcast. This session is now online . During one hour, Guy, Mario and I discuss about LINQ in French . You can find the podcast here . I...
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Today, I received a copy of LINQ im Einsatz . This is the German translation of LINQ in Action . It's now available from Amazon.de and from Hanser . Bonus: The German version is bigger than the English one. It contains chapter 14, which covers LINQ to...
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In LINQ in Action, we discuss how to add the LINQ to SQL Query visualizer into the Visual Studio 2008 environment. This tool allows you to open a window during debug time to view the TSQL that is generated from the LINQ expression tree. It also allows...
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When we wrote LINQ in Action, we took a bit of time to explain how the identity tracking system worked with LINQ to SQL to make sure that changed objects were retained when subsequent queries are requested from a data context. In a nutshell, when you...
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In May, I announced the changes related to LINQ that were included in .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta. Now that the SP1 is officially available , more changes have been announced. The originally announced changes were: The support for SQL Server 2008 The...
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If you're a tech books reader, you may have noticed that over the last few years, Manning has been publishing a lot of books (and ebooks) covering .NET. Given all the good reviews Manning books are receiving, it looks like they are not too bad... As a...
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Eggheadcafe.com readers' poll declares LINQ in Action "The best book about C# 3.0 and LINQ". The poll is still open, so feel free to give your opinion....
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At TechEd Developers 2008 in Orlando, I had the pleasure of competing in Speaker Idol. In that competition, we had the opportunity to present a topic in 5 minutes. Unfortunately, the topic I choose really needed 10 minutes to cover at the level of detail...
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One of the strengths that LINQ to SQL has over the upcoming Entity Framework is its support for POCO, or Plain Old Class Objects. With LINQ to SQL, the framework doesn't require any particular base classes, interfaces or even reliance on the 3.5 framework...
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If you're at Tech Ed Developer in Orlando, make sure to find me. If you miss me on the convention floor, I'll also be participating in Speaker Idol on Wednesday 6/4 at noon. In addition, I will be doing a book signing in the store at 1:00 on Thursday,...
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For a change, I won't post about all the positive reviews that our LINQ book received. Today, I wanted to post about a negative review that has been published recently on Amazon.com . This review is interesting because it's completely different than the...
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It seems that everyone else is chiming in on Danny Simmons' recent comparisons of the Entity Framework with other similar technologies. There are several items I wanted to address from his observations. Regarding the EF vs. LINQ to SQL, he makes two basic...
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Despite what a lot of people still believe, LINQ is not all about SQL and databases. I guess it will take time before everybody gets used to it. With his 7 tricks to simplify your programs with LINQ , Igor Ostrovsky provides great examples of small but...
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The ADO.NET team details on its blog what has changed for LINQ to SQL with the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta : Across the LINQ to SQL we have made numerous bug fixes, better SQL translation for queries comparing nullable...
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On page 216 of LINQ in Action , I made a comment that unmapped properties in a mapped class cannot be used in a LINQ to SQL projection. This was true with the beta bits, but only partially true with the release bits. To begin, let's consider the Author...
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LINQ in Action is doing well. We're all happy with the sales and all the reviews , on Amazon (5 stars on average) or on blogs. In fact, the book is doing so well that the publisher has to do a second printing! We didn't expect that it would happen so...
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C# 3.0 and VB.NET 9.0 introduced implicit typing. When you use anonymous types, it's required. The rest of the time, it's mostly a judgment call to decide whether to use implicitly-typed local variables or not. An interesting discussion is going on about...
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I had a blast on the Geek Speak today. If you missed it, they will have it available on demand from their blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/geekspeak/ . You can even subscribe to the audio feed using your the Zune podcasting functionality from their rss feed...
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Tomorrow, Wednesday 4/2/2008, I will be the guest speaker on the Geek Speak webcast. We will be discussing strategies for beginning to incorporate LINQ into your existing application infrastructure. In many cases, that does not mean replacing your entire...
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The two sessions I co-presented during the Microsoft TechDays in February (and all the other sessions) were recorded, and the videos are now available. This is all in French, but I plan on recording soon an English version of my session about LINQ and...
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Since our LINQ in Action book was published last month, we are lucky to receive a lot of nice feedback and comments. Steve, Jim, and I worked hard to make LINQ in Action a book that readers would enjoy. It's very encouraging to see what readers think...
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