InfoWorld

A Working Distinct LINQ Query in C#

As I mentioned Monday and in my Visual Studio 2008 review, I've been struggling with the finer points of LINQ queries. In a talkback comment to my review, "CSharper" pointed me at one solution to ...
Visual Studio Magazine

To Think in LINQ

If you start "thinking in LINQ" you'll get more done with less code, and what you write will be simpler than using SQL. Switching to LINQ and the Entity Framework (EF) means that code you'll write for ...
Ars Technica

Any way to dynamically choose fields in a LINQ query expression?

So I've got this large dataset...call it t_Data, it's pretty easy to cut it up with a where condition in LINQ, but I want to be able to interrogate another dataset....call it q_Category (which ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Why You Really Should Be Using LINQ

Peter Vogel introduces a new column on application development in the real world, and begins by advocating for Language Integrated Query. Welcome to Practical .NET, a new column offering how-to ...
Network World

5 Things the Boss Should Know About Microsoft’s LINQ

You may not have heard about Microsoft‘s new brainchild, Language Integrated Query (LINQ). If you did hear about it, you may have yawned and put it down as yet another new technology searching for a ...
InfoWorld

How to work with Parallel LINQ in C#

Language Integrated Query, also known as LINQ, is a query execution pipeline that adds query capabilities to languages targeted at the managed environment of .Net. Parallel LINQ, or PLINQ, is a query ...