July, 2007

It's often useful to be able to list all the tables or columns in your DataContext. One example is if you want to write a report generation system that works for any DataContext class. LINQ to SQL has an API called the MetaModel which allows you to get...

Jomo Fisher—A lot of people (myself included) have written about LINQ in the next version of C#. LINQ is indeed an empowering technology. However, even without LINQ, C# 3.0 would be a compelling upgrade. Now that Beta2 is publicly available , here’s my...

Jomo Fisher--Rico Mariani has been posting about LINQ to SQL perfomance and has finally posted the performance numbers for Beta2: http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2007/07/05/dlinq-linq-to-sql-performance-part-4.aspx One of the tricks Rico and Matt...