Many times we need to collect a number of results depending upon certain conditions. For that we need to create some sort of collection object, inserting the output to that collection and then returning that collection. But it can be very cumbersome to do that. A rather simple way to do that is to use [...]
Since the creation of the .Net Framework, Microsoft has kept the concept of “Type Safe” at the forefront of their design goals. When 1.1 shipped, the framework had a “generic” collection type called an ArrayList that seemed to break this goal. Microsoft quickly went above and beyond with the 2.0 framework by adding Generics and [...]
Visual Studio 2008 may be better than sliced bread, but the development team at Microsoft has already been working on the next release. They have recently given us Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 as a Community Technology Preview (CTP); it boasts several features that would appeal to developers. This article won't go [...]
Say you want to write a join in LINQ but you need to do it on more than one field. You’d expect you’d just say something like, on a.ID equals b.ID && a.EmployeeID equals b.EmployeeID or something like that right? right? Wrong. If you want to do a multi-field join you need to use an [...]
Back in July it was 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 would halt in favor of ADO.NET Entity Framework. A recent announcement by Tim Mallalieu, Program Manager of both [...]
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