ADO.NET, LINQ, DataSet and other fun .NET technology

I'm currently down in sunny Orlando, getting ready for Tech Ed (or is it TechEd? That dot between letters is a very odd thing). I'm going to be presenting on LINQ to DataSet, and Understanding the Entity Framework. As usual, I have far too much material Read More...

If you've been playing with LINQ to DataSet, you may have noticed the EnumerableRowCollection type. For example, if you have a query like the following, the type of query is EnumerableRowCollection. var query = from row in ds.Tables[0].AsEnumerable() Read More...

LINQ To DataSet Data Binding – LinqDataView restriction joins In previous episodes In the last post I made on LINQ To DataSet Binding, I talked about how to create a LinqDataView. I’m going to spend some time today talking about some of the interesting Read More...

With the introduction of LINQ to DataSet there finally exists a full featured query language for the DataSet. Now your ability to query your data is limited only by CLR, which is no small thing! For an introduction on LINQ to DataSet, please see this Read More...