This post was intended to be a reply to this question http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showpost.aspx?postid=2440161&siteid=1 on the Entity Framework forum, but its size exceeds the forum server limit. Besides, it’s useful in general. So I decided...

Last Friday I blogged about making local variables behave consistently in LINQ to Entities queries . And the solution I recommended was compiled queries. But just today I realized that I haven’t blogged about compiled queries in general yet. The...

LINQ is very nice about referencing local variables without any additional declaration. When I ran my first such LINQ to Entities query, I was ecstatic. The next moment I was puzzled – are the values of those variables picked at compile-time and later...

2007.12.18 : Please accept my apologies – today I discovered (and fixed) two bugs in the parsing code. One is a silly error. The other is that collections should be treated as primitive types and refs with regard to the number of fields. The code bellow...

The attached XSL script neatly renders an Entity Framework CSDL file into HTML. Below is the NorthwindEF model that we’ve been using for our samples, rendered using that XSL script: Northwind Entity Sets Entity Types Complex Types Associations...

A well defined query against a well defined entity data model does not need JOIN . Navigation properties in combination with nesting sub-queries should be used instead. These latter constructs represent task requirements much more closely than JOIN...