If you don't have Visual C# Codename Orcas Express Edition installed on your development machine, and you are using Visual Studio 2005 with the LINQ 2006 CTP , then SqlMetal.exe is something that you must lookout for. It is the O/R mapper that you must...

While exploring a number of neat features available in the Visual C# Orcas Express Edition, you will see the following: There is no namespace like DLinq, or XLinq anymore, they are replace with more meaningful System.Data.Linq and System.Xml.Linq However...

Year: 2005 A.D. The C# 2.0 specification is released in the month of September. It talks about "new" features. We were introduced with a new "in-line" feature of using delegates. We called it "Anonymous Methods". Needless to say, its named as such because...

Hello folks, This time we will explore LINQ over a series of Posts. As you must be knowing the age old "var" is back. But, is it the same old var that used to be in VB 6.0 days? Precisely its not the same it has got a number of new features: - You have...

Preface: I have seen a large number of cases where the customer complaint of performance and scalability issues when they create/manage a data-aware application. That’s when I decided that I should come up with something that is concise, efficient, and...