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Linq to SQL is great. You can open up your Db schema, drag some tables in, and in no time you have a data context class with loads of functionality, and data classes for all of the entities. No more recordsets to pack and unpack, just lists of stringly typed ojects. Even better, the classes are partial so that you can extend them.
It seems ...
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Just came across a nasty gotcha today, where by we were trying to use the new C# 3.5 syntax
var x = from item in items select new Item { ItemName = item.Name };
and getting a compile error. Turns out this was due to the need to have the following using statement (that doesn't come up in a smart tag prompt when you're writing linq),
using ...
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What kind of thing is Language Integrated Query, exactly? You can draw the line in a number of places, but I am going to cut it down to the core, where LINQ is a Domain Specific Language.
There are LINQ-enabling language features, i.e the language extensions of type ...
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I never really got that excited about Silverlight 1.0, mainly because whilst it had a great core graphics engine and did video streaming very well, it's feature set was just not rich enough to make it really useful to applications that demanded deep functionality.
One of the features that was clearly lacking was connectivity; you could not ...
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SQL Server 2008 is upon us and if there is one feature about which I am somewhat excited (sad geek, I know) is the plethora of new data types designed purely to store dates and times. To explain the reasons for this excitement let me just list the problems with existing SQL types.
The first major issue is that of resolution: Smalldatetime has ...
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Was just reading on Scott Gu's blog about the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5, and came across an excellent description of the new extension methods feature in .Net 3.5. I have to say that until I saw this blog post, the quick overview from Mike Taulty at TechEd lost me somewhat as to what the purpose of these extension methods is, ...
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So I just got back from TechEd Barcelona, and I had a great conference in no small part due to the people I went with: Merrick Chaffer, James Dawson and Paul McMillan. This is a selection of some of Conchango's finest from the world of .Net development, infrastructure and SQL Server. One of the reasons the conference was so much more enjoyable ...
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K: Bless me Father for I have sinned, it's been a month since my last Blog post...
F: Go write 1,000 lines of c# and a Linq query...
Yup, I've been away from the Blogosphere for a while, no excuse really, just got out of the “habit”... (Pun intended)
But today’s (or should I say yesterday’s) Google announcement ...
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It was very apparent to me that this years keynote was an attempt to explain why MS has moved the Windows Mobile division into the Entertainment & Devices Division.One fact that I didn't know was that 90% phones bought by individuals and brought into the enterprise... Next came the video’s of add’s from around the world ...
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