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LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client - Part 3 Database Transactions
16 April 08 12:03 PM

In my previous posts this week I showed how to build a simple distributed application with a Windows client, a WCF hosted middle-tier and a data access layer that used LINQ to SQL: LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client - Part 1 Building the Middle-Tier LINQ Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 20 Comments    

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LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client - Part 2 Building the Client
14 April 08 11:03 AM

In my last post we built the service and data access layer for our LINQ to SQL N-Tier application. In this post we'll walk through building a very simple Windows client form that works with our middle-tier. Adding the Service Reference Now that we have Read More...

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LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client - Part 1 Building the Middle-Tier
12 April 08 09:01 AM

In my previous posts on LINQ to SQL I showed how to build LINQ to SQL classes and set up the data binding in your Windows applications. If you missed them: Related Data Binding and ComboBoxes with LINQ to SQL Creating Lookup Lists with LINQ to SQL One-To-Many Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 19 Comments    

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Simple Validation with LINQ to SQL Classes
25 February 08 05:04 PM

In the last few posts on LINQ to SQL I've showed how to set up an object model using the O/R designer and how to handle a couple data binding scenarios with Comboboxes here and here . Last post on this topic we implemented a one-to-many data entry form Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 34 Comments    

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One-To-Many (Master-Detail) Forms with LINQ to SQL
19 February 08 03:11 PM

In previous posts this month I showed how to use LINQ to SQL classes with a couple different Combobox data binding scenarios. (You can read those articles here and here .) Today I'm going to show you how to create a one-to-many data entry form (and we'll Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 46 Comments    

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Creating Lookup Lists with LINQ to SQL
07 February 08 09:00 AM

In yesterday's post I showed you how to bind LINQ to SQL classes to a Combobox in order to filter records on a one-to-many form. Today I want to show you how how you can use a Combobox as a lookup list in order to edit values on a record. We'll be building Read More...

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Related Data Binding and ComboBoxes with LINQ to SQL
06 February 08 02:07 PM

In a previous post I showed how to set up related data binding using ComboBoxes against DataSets and a loyal reader asked how this would be done using LINQ and Visual Studio 2008. I assume he meant LINQ to SQL in this case, because remember LINQ can be Read More...

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