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How to Page LINQ to SQL with a LinqDataSource Control

Undoubtedly,
anyone who has evaluated LINQ to SQL has fond it a fairly powerful yet
lightweight ORM technology which is less complex than the ADO Entity
Framework yet utilizes the strength and power of Language Integrated
Queries.

One problem with LINQ to SQL is the auto paging
feature of the LinqDataSource.  Below is a rough GridView which
displays three columns, UserName, FirstName [...]

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7 LINQ Tricks to Simplify Your Programs

Ever since I learned about LINQ, I keep discovering new ways to use
it to improve my code. Every trick makes my code a little bit faster to
write, and a little bit easier to read.

This posting summarizes some of the tricks that I came across. I will show you how to use LINQ to:

Initialize an array [...]

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How To Query Data with Parallel LINQ

This post shows a simple way to write code that takes advantage of
multiple processors. You will see that LINQ queries can allow you to
side step the difficult tasks normally involved in writing
multi-threaded code. To get started, all you need is a little basic
knowledge of how to write simple LINQ queries.

The code shown
in this post uses [...]

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