LINQ Enabled Personal Web Site Starter Kit

Published 13 February 08 08:03 AM

Jim Wooley, VB MVP, has rewritten the original Personal Web Starter Kit using LINQ for the data tier rather than stored procedures and ADO.NET and has put it up onto Code Gallery. The starter kit manages images in a SQL database by album.

You can download the LINQ-enabled Personal Web Starter Kit here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/LinqPersonalWeb

By the way, you can see all the latest Visual Basic Code Gallery and CodePlex projects as well as Jim's ThinqLinq blog -- plus all things cool in VB on the Visual Basic Developer Center!

Enjoy!

by Beth Massi
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# BioSensorAB » LINQ Enabled Personal Web Site Starter Kit said on February 13, 2008 11:25 AM:

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# Juan Calcagno said on February 13, 2008 4:04 PM:

In your opinion, does LINQ replaces ADO.NET ? Until VS2008 was released, it seemed to me that the answer was "no", but now I have seconds thoughts; what are the compelling reasons why developers would not develop their data tier exclusively or primarily using LINQ? In your vision, why do we still need ADO.NET?

Thank you in advance.

# Beth Massi said on February 13, 2008 4:12 PM:

Hi Juan,

It's a common misconception that LINQ is just about SQL data access when in fact, it is not. LINQ stands for Language Integrated Query and allows you to query over ANY .NET object collection. There are LINQ providers to other data sources like DataSets, XML and then of course SQL. And don't forget LINQ to Entities either ;-).

Under the covers, the LINQ to SQL Provider is actually using ADO.NET. So no, ADO.NET is not going away. Depending on your application needs you may still need to control ADO.NET yourself or you can opt to use LINQ to SQL which abstracts away the ADO.NET code for you.

HTH,

-Beth

# juancalcagno said on February 13, 2008 4:17 PM:

Beth,

Thanks for your reply.

# Valerio said on March 26, 2008 7:27 PM:

Jim is great!

check out his book on linq, "LINQ IN ACTION"

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About Beth Massi

Beth Massi is a Program Manager on the VS Community Team working with the Visual Basic Team producing developer content on MSDN and her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi). As a VB community champion and a member of the Microsoft community she helps run a .NET user group in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. Before Microsoft she was a Senior Systems Architect at a health care software product company and was a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Over the last decade she has worked on distributed applications and frameworks using Visual Basic.NET, ASP.NET, SQL-Server, and Visual FoxPro. She has worked on various projects including developing object-oriented middle-tier frameworks, COM, .NET, Web and Windows-based applications using Microsoft development tools for a variety of businesses. She loves teaching, mountain biking, and modifying cars.
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