InfoQ

Is LINQ to SQL Truly Dead?

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InfoQ

Implementing NOLOCK with LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities

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Visual Studio Magazine

Speed O/R Mapping with LINQ to SQL: Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Add-Ins Remove LINQ to SQL Roadblocks

LINQ to SQL is more stable and bug-free than most Microsoft version 1 products, but data-oriented .NET developers com-­plain the free O/RM tool doesn't offer the Entity Framework (EF) capability to ...
Visual Studio Magazine

LINQ to SQL Figure 2: Data Retrieval with Stored Procedures Complicates Use of the LinqDataSource.

This test harness illustrates how EntityRef associations can replace the Order.CustomerID, Order.EmployeeID, and Order.ShipVia entity property (foreign key) values with Customer.CompanyName, ...
Ars Technica

OMG LINQ, will you marry me?

I just wanted to share my excitement on the discovery of everything LINQ can do. I had initially seen it as "oh, it lets you write your SQL straight in the C#. I guess that's nice, but I use stored ...
Ars Technica

Linq: Can't get DataLoadOptions.AssociateWith to work

I'm working on a little classifieds ad site that uses Linq as the backend. For the sake of this discussion let's assume that there's just two tables/entities: Areas (basically cities) and ...
InfoWorld

How to chunk data using LINQ in C#

Take advantage of the Chunk method in LINQ to split large data sets into a sequence of chunks for more efficient processing. Language-Integrated Query, or LINQ for short, brings a query execution ...