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Building a Event Log Viewer using LINQ

Now that LINQ is available to all developers with the release of Visual Studio 2008, it is going to take some time to realize all of its uses. I now find I examine a .NET class library object and see if any properties implement an IEnumerable collection Read More

posted Tuesday, November 27, 2007 3:39 PM by Troy.Magennis | 0 Comments
Filed Under: LINQ, C# 3.0

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Released

Scott Guthrie blogged: "Today we shipped Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5. You can download the final release using one of the links below: If you are a MSDN subscriber, you can download your copy from the MSDN subscription site (note: Read More

posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 2:48 PM by Troy.Magennis | 0 Comments
Filed Under: LINQ, C# 3.0, Tools

LINQ Frequently Asked Questions Pages

I've been fielding lots of LINQ related questions recently through comments and emails from the HookedOnLINQ site. I decided to document my responses over the last few months and post the answers. I'd be really interested in feedback and the questions Read More

posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 2:22 PM by Troy.Magennis | 0 Comments
Filed Under: LINQ

Will LINQ eliminate stored procedures? or just a more intelligent way to access data?

I got this email today posted from the HookedOnLINQ Wiki I host: Troy -- I am a new developer to the LINQ framework and had a few questions that I hope you can field. Looking at a broad overview of LINQ, I see it as a way to simplify development, Read More

posted Tuesday, September 25, 2007 3:11 PM by Troy.Magennis | 5 Comments
Filed Under: LINQ

Hooked on LINQ - 100 pages reached

After hovering at 80 odd pages for a few weeks, Hooked on LINQ, the LINQ developer wiki has topped the 100 page mark. The new additions are in the C# 3.0 Language Enhancements and more thorough descriptions including some laborious work documenting in Read More

posted Thursday, February 15, 2007 5:05 PM by Troy.Magennis | 14 Comments
Filed Under: LINQ, C# 3.0

Entity SQL - Another string based data-access language

This is a polarizing post- I really want these issues discussed and debated. I'm interested is anyone else is bemused at the seemingly duplicatation of effort between the Entity Framework and LINQ to SQL. Its been bugging me for a while and I've suffered Read More

posted Thursday, February 15, 2007 11:49 AM by Troy.Magennis | 18 Comments
Filed Under: LINQ

LINQ to Objects - Update Command

I was looking through the Standard Query Operators and noticed that there is no update or delete operators. Whilst writing examples I was continuously following the pattern: Query data. Foreach over the result and set properties and do actions. Update Read More

posted Sunday, January 21, 2007 3:23 PM by Troy.Magennis | 6 Comments
Filed Under: LINQ, Aspiring.Query, C# 3.0

LINQ to Objects - 5 Minute Overview

I've been adding content to my new project HookedOnLINQ.com, a wiki devoted to LINQ. I've written a st of 5 minute overviews which i'd like feedback on: LINQ to Objects - 5 Minute Overview LINQ to SQL - 5 Minute Overview LINQ to XML - 5 Minute Overview Read More

posted Sunday, December 31, 2006 6:22 AM by Troy.Magennis | 1 Comments
Filed Under: LINQ

Hooked on LINQ Wiki Community Site Launched

I've uploaded and started to prime content on what I hope will become the community repository for all things LINQ related. http://www.HookedOnLinq.com/ My motivation is simple; I want one place that I can go to get my hands on official and community Read More

posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 10:43 AM by Troy.Magennis | 22 Comments
Filed Under: LINQ

LINQ to XSD - First Project

I downloaded the LINQ to XSD alpha preview. After reading the disclaimer multiple times (it seems Microsoft want it clear that this may not make the Orcas cut, and is for feedback), I fired up Visual Studio and gave it a go. I had just written a LINQ Read More

posted Thursday, December 07, 2006 7:04 AM by Troy.Magennis | 218 Comments
Filed Under: LINQ, C# 3.0

LINQ to XSD - Working with Typed XML

LINQ to XSD has been released in alpha form by the XML team, and they are requesting feedback. You can see the release details and download link from this post. Here is an extract from the post describing what it is - What is LINQ to XSD? LINQ Read More

posted Thursday, November 30, 2006 5:24 AM by Troy.Magennis | 0 Comments
Filed Under: LINQ, C# 3.0

Extension Methods - Enjoy Responsibly

When first discovering Extension Methods, the new feature in C#3.0 that allows you to introduce methods to any type without using the normal OO principle of inheritance, I must say I was a little concerned that this feature might cause chaos and destruction. Read More

posted Sunday, November 19, 2006 6:29 AM by Troy.Magennis | 252 Comments
Filed Under: LINQ, C# 3.0

Anonymous Types and Implicitly Typed Local Variables (var keyword)

At first variable type inference using the new C# 3.0 var operator sends fear through those of us who have tried to debug errors loosely typed languages, where var could represent any object type (although there is some controversy on the loosely / strong Read More

posted Monday, October 30, 2006 3:54 PM by Troy.Magennis | 252 Comments
Filed Under: LINQ, C#

LINQ Performance and OpenMP (Parallel LINQ)

A few months ago Nick Wienolt (author of the performance book: Improving .NET Performance) showed me the OpenMP Parallelism support in C++.NET. OpenMP allows you to write multi-threaded applications by using pragma directives to single threaded code. Read More

posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 8:48 AM by Troy.Magennis | 2 Comments
Filed Under: LINQ

Random Sampling of Data using LINQ

Gathering a random sampling of data from a bigger source has many uses, from testing, debugging and marketing. Some examples: Whilst developing or debugging a LINQ query, it is easier to analyze a smaller result set from a much larger source Running Read More

posted Friday, October 27, 2006 10:11 AM by Troy.Magennis | 2 Comments
Filed Under: LINQ, Aspiring.Query

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