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Welcome LINQ in Action is the place where you'll find everything you need to discover and understand LINQ technologies. This web site will provide you with content and links to resources about LINQ, LINQ to XML (XLINQ), LINQ to SQL (DLINQ), LINQ to DataSet, LINQ to Entities and other LINQ flavors. This is also the place where you'll find information about the LINQ in Action book.
You can view all the reviews about LINQ in Action.
To start with this site, you can take a look at our blogs.
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Book sent to the printer! Yeah!...
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From February 11 to 13 will take place the Microsoft TechDays France 2008 . It will be the main Microsoft event of the year in France, with no less than 280 sessions. LINQ will be one of the major subjects covered this year: seven sessions will be related...
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You may have seen me present it at a speaking engagement. You may have watched the podcasts . You may have even downloaded the sample application . Now you can see it in action. ThinqLinq.com is now live. The site was designed completely in VB with LINQ...
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Yesterday, a developer asked in the LINQ in Action forum and in Microsoft's official LINQ forum how to write a LINQ to SQL query that would return random records from the database. It's not something built-in. There is no Random query operator provided...
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LINQ in Action won't be available as a paper book before January, but the e-book is already available in preview, and of course .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 are there. This is why we are now able to publish the complete source code for all the samples...
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Often, when you try to find out how to write the correct LINQ query you need, you end up being confused because it becomes too complex. In such situations, you should remember that the let clause is here to help you. Let's see is an example from the official...
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Did you know that a forum dedicated to LINQ in Action is available? It was already available from the book's web page at Manning , but we've just added a link to it in the top menu of this site so it can be found more easily. You can use this forum for...
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In addition to the items I mentioned in my previous Beta 2 - RTM breaking change list , I found a link on the VS 2008 samples page that a whitepaper has been issued on this. In addition, there is a whitepaper specific to breaking changes between VB 2005...
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ParallelFX, which includes PLINQ, is now available as a preview. Learn more on my weblog ....
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All the chapters of LINQ in Action have been sent to the publisher after several waves of reviews. During the last days, we've tested all the code samples with Visual Studio 2008 to ensure everything is up-to-date. The chapters are currently being typeset,...
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Among the new cool features in Visual Studio 2008, one of the best may be the XML Literal support with VB 9 and LINQ. In my last post , I mentioned some changing features from the Beta to RTM. One that could easily be overlooked is a change to the way...
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I've just updated the ThinqLinq proof of concept site for the Visual Studio 2008 release that came out today. If you're following the sample application, or are looking for a sample VB 9 implementation of LINQ in a web site, check out the download at...
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It's offical, Soma annouced on his blog that the 3.5 .Net Framework along with Visual Studio 2008 have shipped. I have been excited by the things coming with this release since PDC 2005 and am glad to finally work the the official bits. I am aware of...
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All you need to work with LINQ (Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5) is now finalized! The final release of Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite is now available for download for MSDN subscribers. Hopefully, all editions of VS 2008 will be released for everyone...
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I have set-up several feedburner syndication options for my postings for your enjoyment. Feel free to move your aggregator over to those versions of the feeds and show me how much you digg what I have to say. Here's the links for you: Wooley's Wonderings...
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At the occasion of TechEd Europe in Barcelona, Manning is offering you to save 30% off the list price for LINQ in Action ! All the chapters are already available as an e-book. We are currently polishing everything in order to prepare the paper book. All...
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This year, I'll be at TechEd Europe for the first time. It will be a good occasion to meet if you are there as well. You'll be able to find me at the Ask The Experts (ATE) booths, where I'll probably be discussing about LINQ . You should be able to spot...
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If you downloaded the VPC image version of Visual Studio 2008 beta 2, make sure to back-up your data and move anything off of the Team Foundation Server before November 1, 2007. I was just informed that the images will be time bombing on November 1 2007...
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The language specifications for the upcoming versions of the C# and VB.NET languages have been published by Microsoft. The Word document for C# 3.0 contains no less than 519 pages. Something to keep you busy for the week-end... The equivalent document...
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Dinesh Kulkarni , now ex-program manager on the LINQ to SQL project, gives on his blog a list of what will not be included in the first version of LINQ to SQL . These are important restrictions to know if you haven't followed the story about LINQ to SQL...
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When I originally started the ThinqLinq project I began by loading the RSS feed from my DevAuthority blog , and iterating over the results adding them to the PostItems table in the data context. With LINQ this is relatively easy. Loading the XML from...
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Dinesh Kulkarni, program manager on the LINQ to SQL project, presents the logic behind LINQ to SQL's Attach() set of APIs . Attaching and detaching objects to and from a DataContext is something that seems to be a source of confusion, based on the questions...
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In my VB 9 language enhancements talks, I do them withalmost all coding on the fly as I find people often can comprehend the code. I start by building a quick class that is used throughout the demos. To assist, I do use the snippet functionality in VB....
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I've uploaded the files for my presentations for the fall Code camp season which I just presented last weekend at the Birmingham, Alabama code camp . If you missed the talks, you can pick up the downloads at the following links. Also, I will be at the...
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We will soon publish excerpts of the LINQ in Action book . One of them will probably show you how to query non-generic collections. Before it becomes available, let me show you an overview of what it presents. When you read and hear about LINQ, you almost...
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