As I mentioned Monday and in my Visual Studio 2008 review, I've been struggling with the finer points of LINQ queries. In a talkback comment to my review, "CSharper" pointed me at one solution to ...

Language Integrated Query, also known as LINQ, is a query execution pipeline that adds query capabilities to languages targeted at the managed environment of .Net. Parallel LINQ, or PLINQ, is a query ...

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 ...

Complex queries can be solved with a combination of simpler LINQ queries, anonymous objects and the Group/By/Into clauses. Using Group/By/Into will also give you the best possible performance for ...

Moving property values from one object to another can be tricky; DevTrends has a set of extensions that can help. In a recent C# Corner column Patrick Steele discussed AutoMapper, which is a fabulous ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...