This is the second in a series of videos on LINQ to SQL in pre-release versions of Visual Studio Orcas. Two movies are featured in this post: The first shows how to work with one-to-many relationships And the second shows how create joins. ...

This short video contains the basic information that you need to use LINQ to SQL to connect to a relational database using the Feb CTP or later pre-release versions of Visual Studio Orcas. After watching this video you should find it easy to create your...

This post is the latest in a series of posts on LINQ as it appears in pre-release versions of Visual Studio Orcas . I'm going to show three different LINQ to SQL queries in this post. The first will demonstrate how to create a simple one-to-many, the...

Welcome to the twenty-first Community Convergence. I'm Charlie Calvert, the C# Community PM, and this is where I publish information about the C# community and the C# development team. My fellow Program Manager DJ Park is looking for feedback on compatibility...

The previous posts in this series have focused on using LINQ to Objects. It is now time to turn our attention to querying a database. In this post I will show connectivity to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server Express from C# using LINQ. You can...

This post covers accessing the Northwind database from Visual Studio or SQL Server Management Studio. Connecting to a database from a C# program is not covered. Instead, the focus is on setting up a system to access a database from the tools that programmers...

I've become the default manager for the samples that ship with the various Orcas CTP's and upcoming betas. As a result, I'm going to start a new category here on my blog where I can share information about these samples. It is quite likely that we will...

Attached to this article you can the outline for my talks on the Visual Studio 2005 IDE and on LINQ. These are rough drafts and will be updated after the conference.

Welcome to the twentieth Community Convergence. I'm Charlie Calvert, the C# Community PM, and this is where I publish information about the C# community and the C# development team. This week I have the chance to write about the interview with Anders...