More LINQ "How Do I" Videos Just Released
I just released three more LINQ how-to videos, #3, #4 and #5 and they're up on the Developer Center now. One is an example of how to use LINQ to DataSets and the other two focus on LINQ to SQL and the new O\R designer.
If you're thinking about converting your Visual Studio 2005 apps to Visual Studio 2008 and are using DataSets right now, you'll want to take a look at the LINQ over DataSets video. You don't have to re-architect your applications in order to take advantage of Language Integrated Query right now. There is a built-in LINQ over DataSet provider that allows you to write queries right over your current DataSets.
But why stop there :-) ?
LINQ to SQL is a built-in infrastructure that allows you to create object models directly from tables in your SQL databases and use them in your Visual Basic applications. These objects can be custom business objects that you extend with partial methods or even inherit from your own base class. And best of all, LINQ to SQL manages changes in these objects for you automatically, and it can be as easy as using a DataSet. If you're creating new data-based applications or looking at upgrading and extending your current ones, this is a technology that you won't want to miss. So get on learning it now by watching these videos.
Also please feel free to rate the videos and send me feedback by clicking on the stars in the right-hand side of the landing pages (on a scale of 1 to 5 stars, 5 being the best). I actually do read all of them and so do our site managers!
Enjoy!
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About Beth Massi
Beth is a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Community Team at Microsoft and is responsible for producing and managing content for business application developers, driving community features and team participation onto MSDN Developer Centers (http://msdn.com), and helping make Visual Studio one of the best developer tools in the world. She also produces regular content on her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi), Channel 9, and a variety of other developer sites and magazines. As a community champion and a long-time member of the Microsoft developer community she also helps with the San Francisco East Bay .NET user group and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. Before Microsoft, she was a Senior Architect at a health care software product company and a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Over the last decade she has worked on distributed applications and frameworks, web and Windows-based applications using Microsoft development tools in a variety of businesses. She loves teaching, hiking, mountain biking, and driving really fast.
