Microsoft's controversial decision to position the ADO.NET Entity Framework has generated a lot of backlash among developers who made early bets on LINQ to SQL, which the company had released with ...

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 ...

Peter follows up on advice for joining collections with LINQ and getting all of the results, but this time, he uses the method-based syntax. A little while back, I did a column on how to join two ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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I am not really even sure how to Google search for this, as I am not really sure how to formulate the question, so I'll try and give an example. I am using LINQ-XML to parse an input file that I want ...