Many database developers have loudly bemoaned Microsoft's decision late last year to marginalize LINQ to SQL in favor of its ADO.NET Entity Framework. Hence there will be no major emphasis on LINQ to ...

Back in July we reported that LINQ to SQL was transferred to the SQL Data Programmability team. This event raised a lot of concern in the developer community, who worried that work on LINQ to SQL ...

The problem with Dynamic LINQ is that it depends on LINQ to SQL and the query data source must be of the IQuerable type.

Twice in the past couple of months I’ve gotten tripped up by the same data issue when using LINQ to Entities in the .NET framework. I create a simple view in my database which performs some ...

I'm comfortable writing SQL and I'm comfortable with method chaining in LINQ, but I am not comfortable writing in the query syntax style of LINQ.

Test-Drive SQL Server Data Services: C# 3.0, LINQ to XML: Autogenerate REST XML Entity Templates: Listing 1 A SqlDataReader instance and LINQ to XML functional construction combine to enable ...