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This is the sixteenth in a series of posts on how to build a LINQ IQueryable provider. If you have not read the previous posts you might try rolling into a ball and crying for momma. That’s right, reading on is as hazardous to your health as a skinned knee. Just be warned and have an anti-biotic on hand. Read More...

This is the fifteenth in a series of posts on how to build a LINQ IQueryable provider. If you have not read the previous posts you might try searching for the audio tapes on www.Bing.com. That would be a lot easier than reading. You won't find any, but you'll feel better for having tried. Read More...

This is the fourteenth in a series of posts on how to build a LINQ IQueryable provider. If you have not read the previous posts you might request a weeks vacation, sit back, relax with a mochacino in one hand a netbook in the other, or if you've got better Read More...

This is the thirteenth in a series of posts on how to build a LINQ IQueryable provider. If you have not read the previous posts you probably have a life beyond the keyboard, but if you don't then follow the link below to find oodles more to help fill your meaningless existence. Read More...

The LINQ IQueryable Toolkit is now a CodePlex project. http://www.codeplex.com/IQToolkit Going forward this will the be official site to find the latest greatest source bits. I'll continue to post here about the toolkit, how to use it and to show off Read More...

Here's a list of all the posts in the building an IQueryable provider series. If you want to get the latest and greatest source code just follow that last link. If you want to discover how to build your own IQueryable provider read from the beginning. Read More...

This is the twelfth in a series of posts on how to build a LINQ IQueryable provider. If you have not read the previous posts you probably were born yesterday. How could you possibly make sense of this post without any context at all? At least make an attempt. Sometimes I don't know why I bother. Read More...

This is the eleventh in a series of posts on how to build a LINQ IQueryable provider. If you have not read the previous posts you’ll want to do so before proceeding, or at least before proceeding to copy the code into your own project and telling your boss you single-handedly solved the data layer problem over the weekend. Read More...

This is the tenth in a series of posts on how to build a LINQ IQueryable provider. If you have not read the previous posts you'll want to find a nice shady tree, relax and meditate on why your world is so confused and full of meaningless tasks that it has kept you from pursuing the perfection of writing IQueryable providers. Read More...

I often get asked how LINQ to SQL is supposed to be used with Test Driven Design (TDD). Okay, not really. People aren’t knocking on my door or calling me at 3:00 am. I do, however, occasionally read developers angst on their personal blogs. It seems they are trying to actually do this, but are often confounded by the DataContext and its dearth of appropriate interfaces. Read More...

This is the nineth in a series of posts on how to build a LINQ IQueryable provider. If you have not read the previous posts here's a handy list of all the fun you've been missing. Complete list of posts in the Building an IQueryable Provider series It's Read More...

Check it out and see if you know the answer. Rico's Performance Tidbits Read More...

I am going to tell you something that will disturb you. You might laugh, but it will be a cold uncertain laugh that will haunt you as you read on, because somewhere deep down you'll know it to be true. You might brush it off, get on with your day, yet sometime later, a week or a year, it will seep back in and unsettle you to the core. From that moment on you will be changed. You will think different, act different and will fundamentally be different. So take a moment to prepare yourself now, breath deeply, clear your mind and open up to the possibility that building software is hard. Read More...

Implementing OrderBy Today's topic is translating those order-by clauses. Fortunately, there is only one way to do ordering, and that's using the LINQ ordering specific query operators. The bad news is that there are four different operators. Read More...

This is the seventh in a series of posts on how to build a LINQ IQueryable provider. If you have not read the previous posts you might want to rethink your place in the universe. :-) Read More...