Chuck Hanson started feeling uneasy earlier this month when he heard rumblings that one of Microsoft's year-old data-access protocols, LINQ to SQL, might be sidelined in favor of an even newer ...

Developers are reckoning with the fact that Microsoft's LINQ to SQL data access protocol is getting short shrift in Redmond these days as the company continues to shore up its focus on the second ...

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 ...

When we say LINQ To SQL, it refers to the technology through which we can access Database via LINQ. This has replaced the traditional way of writing SQL Query for Database access, even it has made ...

Chuck Hanson started feeling uneasy earlier this month when he heard rumblings that one of Microsoft's year-old data-access protocols, LINQ to SQL, might be sidelined in favor of an even newer ...

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You can supply an existing ADO.NET connection when you create a [!INCLUDEvbtecdlinq] xref:System.Data.Linq.DataContext. All operations against the xref:System.Data.Linq.DataContext (including queries) ...

LINQ provides a query syntax used for querying different data sources like SQL server, Oracle, Collections etc. Type checking is done at compile time in LINQ. DOT NET framework languages like C# and ...

System.Linq.Sql is a light weight set of extensions for System.Linq for making database operations on types that are not known at compile time. You wouldn’t be alone if you didn’t understand the short ...