Visual Studio Magazine

Why You Really Should Be Using LINQ

Peter Vogel introduces a new column on application development in the real world, and begins by advocating for Language Integrated Query. Welcome to Practical .NET, a new column offering how-to ...
Ars Technica

LINQ: how do I concatenate two fields in my SELECT (tsq: a + b AS ab)

Seriously, why do I suck at this so much...<BR><BR>Anyway, LINQ, I just want to take LName + ", " + FName AS LastFirstName<BR><BR>...<BR><BR>How do I do that in my ...
Ars Technica

C#: How to properly handle exceptions that could be thrown in LINQ query results

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 ...
CIO

Five Things the Boss Should Know About Microsoft’s LINQ

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 ...