Ars Technica

Any way to dynamically choose fields in a LINQ query expression?

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 ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Seeing the SQL Generated by LINQ to Entity Queries

Sometimes you really, really, really want to see the SQL that LINQ generates when working with the Entity Framework. For instance, in a comment to a recent tip, a reader mentioned that a LINQ to ...
Ars Technica

[LINQ to SQL] Filtering

I'm working on an ASP.NET application in which I'd like to provide the user with some filters for a TreeView control. I'm building the TreeView using a LINQ to SQL query to a view in the database. For ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Generating .NET POCO Classes for SQL Query Results

A free tool to reduce coding for developers who like to surface T-SQL database recordsets in a simple collection of customized POCO objects. Every so often, I find myself wishing that I had a utility ...