Dinesh's Cyberstation
After a long break, I plan to restart blogging - but in a more personal location so I can blog about...
Date: 10/28/2010
Some of it is covered in my previous post and on Silverlight.net but here is a summary: Bits...
Date: 03/26/2009
A few folks have asked me what I have been up to after wrapping up LINQ previews and V1. I have not...
Date: 03/18/2009
I have been underground for a while - trying to wrap up the LINQ book and working on some exciting...
Date: 03/11/2009
There are three perf improvements in the just released SP1. As always, I will let you run your own...
Date: 08/11/2008
This is going to be a brief one. If you are using LINQ to SQL, you should check out Damien's new...
Date: 08/08/2008
This is old story and I have used parts of it over the last three years to show how LINQ lets you...
Date: 07/28/2008
Back to the "tips" series after a little break ... One common question I get is about caching of...
Date: 07/02/2008
An unusual subject for this blog that has been mostly about components I have worked on. But the...
Date: 06/28/2008
LINQ to SQL Tips 8: How to (and why) create a partial class in the designer to augment generated code
The code generated for LINQ to SQL is a set of partial classes - one for your DataContext and one...
Date: 06/06/2008
The common guidance for updates is to keep the original values in view state so that you can...
Date: 06/02/2008
The DataContext is a rather careful beast. Once an object is retrieved, the DataContext will not...
Date: 05/23/2008
Often I get the following questions about stored procs in LINQ to SQL: I have sproc that returns...
Date: 05/16/2008
I often get a question along the following lines: If I remove one of the OderDetails from...
Date: 05/11/2008
This post is a confluence of two distinct sets of comments I got: The above-mentioned feature is a...
Date: 05/06/2008
A while ago (October last year), I moved from C# team to the "UI Frameworks" team inside the .NET...
Date: 05/04/2008
One of the frequently asked questions is about the lifetime of a DataContext. Should it be a...
Date: 04/28/2008
Here is another question I get quite often: I have some common fields (maybe id and timestamp) and...
Date: 11/09/2007
I was out on vacation (Zion, Bryce Canyon and Grand Canyon National Parks) so my blog went dark for...
Date: 11/05/2007
I keep getting a lot of questions about whether DLinq is for data objects or for business objects....
Date: 10/15/2007
Most of my posts have been about what is new in beta2 or RTM or how you can do great things with...
Date: 10/15/2007
I keep getting this question so often - "I want to do xyz. I have CRUD (Create, Read, Updated,...
Date: 10/15/2007
I often answer questions based on what the run-time (System.Data.Linq.dll) supports, sometimes...
Date: 10/10/2007
Now that we are in the final weeks of locking down for RTM, it is worth tallying up the changes....
Date: 10/10/2007
It is clear from the forums that this whole business of attaching detached objects in LINQ to SQL...
Date: 10/09/2007
I got a few mails and saw a few forum posts about the confusion created by new locations for dll/exe...
Date: 07/30/2007
Orcas beta2 is here for you. This is significantly ahead of beta1 and pretty close to the final...
Date: 07/27/2007
I did my TechEd talk about LINQ to SQL (DEV 348 if you want to do an easy search) last Friday. The...
Date: 06/14/2007
At "Meet the LINQ Team" session at TechEd, I got a few questions about LINQ to SQL and if it was...
Date: 06/10/2007
A minor note - at TechEd in Orlando, many attendees decided to pronounce Language INtegrated Query...
Date: 06/10/2007
OK, this is a break from the usual LINQ, ORM, C# stuff. I am at TechEd in this gigantic convention...
Date: 06/07/2007
It has been a while since I posted but given the continuing response and the start of TechEd, it is...
Date: 06/04/2007
I am taking a break from LINQ/C#-related posts for a littler detour. Today I attended Chris...
Date: 07/26/2006
With a tip of a hat to Rudyard and his ballad, I would say Oh SQL is SQL and C# is C#, and never the...
Date: 07/17/2006
At TechEd, I casually asked Bob about a recent revision of his book and a little later, a 1k page...
Date: 06/30/2006
Let's say you build an app that uses a traditional ORM concept of lazy loading. Your app binds an...
Date: 05/11/2006
Good question - in the kitchen of course! The dish is now ready on the LINQ home page and our VP -...
Date: 05/10/2006
OK, the title is buzzwordy and doesn't mean much but here is the question I want to pose as we...
Date: 03/26/2006
Currently, when DLinq retrieves entities, it automatically inserts them in an identity cache. This...
Date: 03/26/2006
I got a couple of emails and a question on my blog about chat transcripts. DLinq transcripts may be...
Date: 03/26/2006
The DLinq team is looking forward to your questions and comments today at 1pm Pacific Time in this...
Date: 03/23/2006
OK, after hibernating in the winter, I am back on the blog. Some of you joined us on DLinq chat last...
Date: 03/16/2006
We will have our second LINQ and C# 3.0 language chat on Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 1pm Pacific...
Date: 10/17/2005
Here is another FAQ I got about DLinq at PDC. How does DLinq handle changes to objects? How is it...
Date: 10/13/2005
Just over a week ago, we had a Microsoft MVP summit here in Redmond. It was great to meet with such...
Date: 10/11/2005
At PDC (and before that on ObjectSpaces project), this was a hot discussion topic. What approach is...
Date: 09/19/2005
Here is another FAQ question that has come up at PDC. Since DLinq is a part of the next version of...
Date: 09/16/2005