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Problem: Imagine that you have these entities public class Product { public int ID { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public virtual Category Category { get; set; } } public class Category { public int ID { get; set; } public string Name {
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If you write a LINQ to Entities query like this: var results = from c in ctx.Vehicles.OfType<Car>() select c; It will bring back, Cars and any type that derives from Car, like say SportCar or SUV. If you just want Cars and you don’t want derived
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A couple of posts back I started talking about composing SOAPY operations efficiently, by shipping intent to the service. An interesting debate ensued in my comments: Kristofer (the guy behind the Huagati tools for DBML and EDMX , and it seems a man after
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Imagine if you have a table of People and you want to retrieve only those whose the Firstname is in a list of interesting firstnames. This is trivial in SQL, you write something like this: SELECT * FROM People WHERE Firstname IN ('Alex', 'Colin', 'Danny',
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I was debugging a problem a couple of days ago, when I learned something interesting. I had some code that looked like this: foreach(Employee e in manager.Manages) { … } The manager.Manages property returned a custom implementation of ICollection<Employee>
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About a week ago I was wandering through Crossroads mall in Bellevue, and with my wife’s new camera in hand, I spotted this: Now I’m sure at least one of you have actually played this, but I’d never even heard of it. If you know me, you know I’m vertically
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