Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from ...

When I was writing my review of Visual Studio 2008, I built a little console application that generated JavaScript data structures from a SQL Server 2000 database in C#, using LINQ to SQL. As I ...

Suppose different departments in your business spoke different languages: English in software development, French in accounting, German in human resources, and Spanish in marketing. This scenario ...

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 ...

Integrating distributed, in-memory computing with distributed caching can easily extend LINQ semantics to create important new capabilities for real-time analytics on fast-changing data. In the age of ...

I'm working on a side project in which I'll be using LINQ to populate some controls (TreeView, GridView, DropDownList). Based on the size of the data to which I am binding, I figure it will be nice to ...

Do you think that LINQ is just another in a long series of odd Microsoft technologies? This database-meets-software-development technology could easily save your development staff time and avoid ...

You may not have heard about Microsoft‘s new brainchild, Language Integrated Query (LINQ). If you did hear about it, you may have yawned and put it down as yet another new technology searching for a ...