A series of new or updated API's that developers can use for building web applications are available from the Windows Live Dev site. The new services and API's are listed below. Go to Dave Treadwell's post to read about them in more detail. New or Updated...

I've recently updated the list of LINQ Providers found on my Links to LINQ page, accessible from the News section on the left of this blog. I'm sure there are other providers available. Feel free to write me or append a comment if you want to add to this...

Last fall in Barcelona, Spain two PM's from the C# team gave talks on key parts of the new LINQ technology found in Visual Studio 2008: Luca Bolognese : LINQ to SQL: Accessing Relational Data with Language Integrated Query Luke Hoban : Microsoft Visual...

Faisal Mohamood , the LINQ to SQL Program Manager, has posted about the work his team has been doing in preparation for the next release of LINQ to SQL. Faisal says that his team has added support for new T-SQL data types that will be found in SQL Server...

Books on LINQ LINQ in Action by Fabrice Marguerie, Steve Eichert, Jim Wooley, and Matt Warren Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008 by Joseph C. Rattz Professional LINQ (Programmer to Programmer) by Scott Klein LINQ Quickly by Satheesh, N Kumar...

The Visual Studio 2008 CSharp samples include several valuable tools that LINQ developers can use to help expedite the development process. One of the is the Expression Tree Visualizer. This tool works in both Visual Studio Express and the other versions...

LINQ Farm Seeds are short posts designed to be read in a few minutes. In the previous seed we used the first overload of the C# 3.0 LINQ Aggregate operator to sum a list of numbers. In this post we'll work with a list of words. The code we will look at...

LINQ Farm Seeds are short posts designed to be read in a few minutes. The first seed showed how to list in alphabetical order all the operators used in LINQ to Objects. At the top of the list one found the Aggregate operator. The LINQ Aggregation operator...

When discussing the design of a technical web site, I usually advocate finding ways to improve the community's ability to rate content, comment on articles, tag articles and dynamically search for articles. I advocate creating a dynamic web site because...

LINQ Farm Seeds are short posts, designed to be read in a few minutes. This one covers enumerating the operators used in LINQ to Objects. The source code for this project is available in the LINQ Farm on Code Gallery. The LINQ to Objects operators are...