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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.
To start with this site, you can take a look at our blogs.
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If you're a tech books reader, you may have noticed that over the last few years, Manning has been publishing a lot of books (and ebooks) covering .NET. Given all the good reviews Manning books are receiving, it looks like they are not too bad... As a...
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Eggheadcafe.com readers' poll declares LINQ in Action "The best book about C# 3.0 and LINQ". The poll is still open, so feel free to give your opinion....
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At TechEd Developers 2008 in Orlando, I had the pleasure of competing in Speaker Idol. In that competition, we had the opportunity to present a topic in 5 minutes. Unfortunately, the topic I choose really needed 10 minutes to cover at the level of detail...
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One of the strengths that LINQ to SQL has over the upcoming Entity Framework is its support for POCO, or Plain Old Class Objects. With LINQ to SQL, the framework doesn't require any particular base classes, interfaces or even reliance on the 3.5 framework...
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If you're at Tech Ed Developer in Orlando, make sure to find me. If you miss me on the convention floor, I'll also be participating in Speaker Idol on Wednesday 6/4 at noon. In addition, I will be doing a book signing in the store at 1:00 on Thursday,...
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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...
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It seems that everyone else is chiming in on Danny Simmons' recent comparisons of the Entity Framework with other similar technologies. There are several items I wanted to address from his observations. Regarding the EF vs. LINQ to SQL, he makes two basic...
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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...
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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...
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On page 216 of LINQ in Action , I made a comment that unmapped properties in a mapped class cannot be used in a LINQ to SQL projection. This was true with the beta bits, but only partially true with the release bits. To begin, let's consider the Author...
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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...
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C# 3.0 and VB.NET 9.0 introduced implicit typing. When you use anonymous types, it's required. The rest of the time, it's mostly a judgment call to decide whether to use implicitly-typed local variables or not. An interesting discussion is going on about...
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I had a blast on the Geek Speak today. If you missed it, they will have it available on demand from their blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/geekspeak/ . You can even subscribe to the audio feed using your the Zune podcasting functionality from their rss feed...
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Tomorrow, Wednesday 4/2/2008, I will be the guest speaker on the Geek Speak webcast. We will be discussing strategies for beginning to incorporate LINQ into your existing application infrastructure. In many cases, that does not mean replacing your entire...
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The two sessions I co-presented during the Microsoft TechDays in February (and all the other sessions) were recorded, and the videos are now available. This is all in French, but I plan on recording soon an English version of my session about LINQ and...
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Since our LINQ in Action book was published last month, we are lucky to receive a lot of nice feedback and comments. Steve, Jim, and I worked hard to make LINQ in Action a book that readers would enjoy. It's very encouraging to see what readers think...
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A book signing session for LINQ in Action will take place at the Monde en Tique bookstore in Paris at the end of the month. Une session de dédicaces du livre LINQ in Action est prévue au Monde en Tique à Paris le samedi 29 mars. N'hésitez pas à passer...
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I love it when projects take a life of their own. A while back, I posted my LINQ enabled Personal Web Starter Kit in VB and received several requests to provide a C# port. Thankfully, one brave soul stepped up and did the port for me. Thanks go to Stephen...
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A frequent question we get about our LINQ book is whether it's been written for C# developers only. If you think so, you're making a mistake. We cover both C# and VB.NET in the book. This is one big difference with competing books. Even if not all code...
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It's not always easy to grasp and follow what's happening when a LINQ query is executed. Well, thanks to clever code by Jon Skeet , it's now possible to see LINQ queries execute in front of your eyes! At least LINQ to Objects queries that is. See this...
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After two years of work on our LINQ book, and 10 days after the PDF ebook , here is the paper book! You can buy it directly from Manning's website to receive it immediately. It will become available on Amazon and in all the other bookstores shortly. The...
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At long last, the process of doing my first book is coming to a close. I started this project last March. Through the process we had to revisit our work numerous times, including each time a new CTP or Beta drop came. For me, 10 months, and Fabrice 2...
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The PDF of our LINQ book has been finalized! You can buy it on Manning's website for $27.50. There, you'll also find the following documents: About This Book Table of Contents Preface Foreword Index We also have sample and bonus chapters awaiting you...
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Here is the preface I wrote for LINQ in Action : I chose software development as the way to make a living mainly because it’s a technology that is constantly evolving. There’s always something new to learn. No chance of getting bored in this line of work!...
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In the official LINQ forum , someone asked whether it's better to use query syntax (query expression) or method syntax (dot notation). My answer is that it's mostly a matter of tastes and it depends on the query. If I'm writing a query that uses many...
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