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June 2006 - Posts

• A Developer's Guide to SQL Server 2005 (Bob Beauchemin and Dan Sullivan)

  At TechEd, I casually asked Bob about a recent revision of his book and a little later, a 1k page book landed on my desk - courtesy Bob. I was very impressed by the content and style.The topics range from the commonly used ones like ADO.NET v2 to more selective ones like in-proc data access. My only concern is about the binding of the paperback as I frequently flip through this thick book. Just to be clear, I don't get any commission on the book but I just liked it and would like developers to look Read More... Posted Friday, June 30, 2006 9:32 AM from Dinesh's Cyberstation | (Comments Off)

• Inserting many to many related records

  I have entity classes and everything that were generated by blinq from our existing database. With the tables that have many to many relationships, how do I perform inserts, updates, etc. easily? None of this was generated, and I'm not familiar enough with LINQ to know how to do it manually. Could someone post an example of how to deal with these relationships? Or at least point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance! Read More... Posted Friday, June 23, 2006 9:41 PM from MSDN Forums: LINQ Project General | (Comments Off)

• New names for current projects (LINQ to SQL, LINQ to XML etc.)

  See Soma's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2006/06/21/641795.aspx Read More... Posted Thursday, June 22, 2006 5:01 PM from MSDN Forums: LINQ Project General | (Comments Off)

• Blinq available for download on ASP.NET site

  Blinq CTP is available for download at http://www.asp.net . ScottGu also demo'ed it at TechEd 2006 in Boston earlier today. BTW, it uses LINQ to SQL (aka DLinq) to generate classes and retrieve/save objects :-) From http://www.asp.net/sandbox/app_blinq.aspx?tabid=62 Overview Blinq is a tool for generating ASP.NET websites for displaying, creating, and manipulating data based on database schema. Just point Blinq at a SQL database and it will create a website with pages that display sorted and paged Read More... Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 7:40 PM from MSDN Forums: LINQ Project General | (Comments Off)