Visual Studio Magazine

Combining LINQ Queries (or, When to Call ToList)

LINQ with Entity Framework has become so common that, when I'm looking at a client's code I'm finding some pretty scary-looking LINQ queries running against Entity Framework. Since I'm a big fan of ...
InfoQ

Implementing NOLOCK with LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities

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Ars Technica

Any way to dynamically choose fields in a LINQ query expression?

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 ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Supporting LINQ Queries Calling Your Methods

You have a method like this that returns a collection of premium Customer objects: Public Function GetPremiumCustomers() As List(of Customer) Dim db As New dbContextObject Return From c In ...
Ars Technica

[LINQ to SQL] Filtering

I'm working on an ASP.NET application in which I'd like to provide the user with some filters for a TreeView control. I'm building the TreeView using a LINQ to SQL query to a view in the database. For ...