LINQ in Action - THE LINQ book

August 2007 - Posts

• LINQ In Action chapters available in MEAP

  If you can't wait for the print version, you can finally get all of the chapters for our LINQ in Action book, including the long awaited LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Amazon chapters. If you sign up now, you can get the current version and rights to all updates Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 28, 2007 10:52 PM by jwooley | 2 Comments

• Using Stored Procedures with LINQ with concurrency checking

  When submitting data to the database, you need to watch out for concurrency issues (times when different users make simultaneous changes to the same record). To do this, in a disconnected environment, we either need to combine a ID and a TimeStamp column Read More... Posted Monday, August 27, 2007 2:09 AM by jwooley | 0 Comments

• ThinqLinq demo app updated for Beta 2

  For anyone who has attended my presentations on ThinqLinq I have updated the sample solution for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. Feel free to download it and try it out. If you have not had the opportunity to attend the sessions live, you can see it in action Read More... Posted Sunday, August 26, 2007 2:18 AM by jwooley | 0 Comments

• LINQ in Action available for pre-order at Amazon

  I was scrolling through some sites and on a whim decided to check to see if LINQ in Action was listed on Amazon yet. Not only is it listed but I found that they have a new feature where they syndicate RSS feeds from a book' site ( www.LinqInAction.net Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2007 10:32 PM by jwooley | 0 Comments

• Use the new LINQ "Contains" extension method for the SQL "IN" clause

  For a while, users were requesting a way to map the SQL "IN" clause as in the following: SELECT Customer.Name FROM Customer WHERE Customer.State IN ('GA', 'FL', 'AL') Prior to Beta 2, this would mean either separate OR clauses for each item, or worse Read More... Posted Monday, August 06, 2007 6:44 PM by jwooley | 3 Comments

• MSDN Events feature LINQ

  The August-October round of MSDN events sports a hot list of technologies, including LINQ and Silverlight. Make sure to register early for these sessions as they are sure to fill-up quickly judging fom the popularity of LINQ and Silverlight at the moment. Read More... Posted Monday, August 06, 2007 3:09 PM by jwooley | 0 Comments Filed under: LINQ

• DataLoadOptions replaces DataShape

  As I continue updating my projects to Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, I found yet another namespace change. This time, it's not the namespace, but object name that has changed. With Beta 1, we could specify what objects would be loaded automatically with their Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 01, 2007 12:48 AM by jwooley | 1 Comments