LINQ in Action roller : Language, Data

IQueryable’s Deep Dark Secret

The Wayward WebLog — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:05:00 GMT

I love the IQueryable interface, but it’s got a dark checkered past that most of you might not know about. IQueryable is a great way to expose your API or domain model for querying or provide a specialized query processor that can be used directly by LINQ. It defines the pattern for you to gather-up a user’s query and present it to your processing engine as a single expression tree that you can either transform or interpret. It’s the way LINQ becomes ‘integrated’ for many LINQ to XXX products. Yet...(read more)

The Origin of LINQ to SQL

The Wayward WebLog — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:52:00 GMT

LINQ to SQL, possibly Microsoft’s first OR/M to actually ship in ten years of trying, was never even supposed to exist. It started out as a humble Visual Studio project on my desktop machine way back in the fall of 2003, long before anyone heard about it, long before anyone even guessed what would come next, except for the readers of this blog, of course, since I used to post often with long obtuse and sometimes psychedelic meanderings that with the proper one-time pad to decrypt it you might have...(read more)

Beyond the Query

The Wayward WebLog — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 05:20:00 GMT

I have been working a long time to bring queries into a modern programming language. Seven years ago I looked beyond ORM and saw the next horizon, a new world where boundaries between data are blurred and popular paradigms from different disciplines combine. Many have tried to convince me that it is simply a mirage, and maybe in some respects it is, but as with anything else there is often a lot of utility born out of imperfection. I have been marching steadily toward that horizon ever since. I also...(read more)

What the World is saying about LINQ

The Wayward WebLog — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:07:00 GMT

“LINQ is totally awesome. It’s like this thing that you use to condense your entire application into one line of demo code. Sweet!” - Stanley Morgan “LINQ is divine but DLINQ is a delinquent. It gives programmers too much power and makes programming against data way too easy. Is nothing sacred anymore?” – Ned Flanders “Lambdas are old school. LISP had these decades ago. If all you want to do is be a sheep then go right ahead. I prefer ACME.” – Wyle E Coyote “I can’t remember what they are called,...(read more)