LINQ in Action - THE LINQ book

May 2008 - Posts

• A negative review for LINQ in Action

  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 Read More... Posted Saturday, May 31, 2008 2:37 PM by Fabrice Marguerie | 16 Comments

• 7 tricks to simplify your programs with LINQ

  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 Read More... Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 3:55 AM by Fabrice Marguerie | 0 Comments

• VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta changes for LINQ to SQL, and more

  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 Read More... Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:43 AM by Fabrice Marguerie | 2 Comments

• LINQ in Action Second Printing!

  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 Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 11:59 PM by Fabrice Marguerie | 6 Comments