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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

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

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