The 'Mango' update to Windows Phone 7 includes LINQ to SQL abilities. Use them while building a movie review app.

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 ...

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 ...

Scott Hanselman recently posted a really useful article on his blog covering the NOLOCK hint when using LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities. The problem is actually how to get the SQL generated by ...

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

If LINQ were smart enough-- and it's pretty smart in other areas, at least-- it'd be feasible to see certain of these operations pushed out to the database server in the SQL.

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 ...