November 2007 - Posts
I started playing with Lambda expression after the TechEd demo by Anders Hejlsberg . Couple of nice things I would like to share with you. As there might be many definitions for Lambda expression but to me Lambda Expression is the concise way to write
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LINQ to SQL is object relational model and .dbml file generates the class file for all kind of Create, read, update and delete ( CRUD ) through the mapping mechanism. Ideally this should allow us to enable it for WCF Service. But for that we have to manually
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Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit videos are now available on web. Get some real exciting presentations VS2008 Training Kit: What's new in C# 3.0? VS2008 Training Kit: What's new in Visual Basic 9.0? VS2008 Training Kit: .NET Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
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Some of the early adopters case studies are now available, Xcalia OpenNETCF Consulting Sogeti Group K2 Get some of the quotes from there, LINQ is an object-oriented language and so fits perfectly with the philosophy of our product, which aims to make
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Get it printed and paste in your cubicle, Visual C# 2008 Poster .NET Framework 3.5 Common Namespaces and Types Poster Other posters are available also at Microsoft Downloads . Namoskar!!!
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As usual Express editions are free but this time you can take this and sit in a remote location and install Visual Studio with no Internet connections. Yes we can download offline .iso to avoid download & install pain. Please visit, http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/offline.aspx
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From code name “cool” to C# 3.0, it’s been a long journey for this amazing language with .NET Runtime. Here I am going to show you the evaluation step by step. Let us assume we have generic list of integers and I need to find the even numbers from that
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LINQ to SQL supports hierarchical data and you can easily create a query and get output from there. Let us take an example of Northwind database. Northwind has Category -> Products -> Order_Details tables. -> indicates one to many relationships
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LINQ to SQL we can read the generated T_SQL query using DataContext.Log or SQLQueryVisualizer. But If you are working with WebProject the Log property not very much convenient as you have to use TextWriter to dump the generated T-SQL query. In Orcas Beta
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Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 will be available by the end of November 2007. For more please refer http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/nov07/11-05TechEdDevelopersPR.mspx Namoskar!!!
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ADO.NET 2.0 offers us a unique feature through which we can make a real lightweight DataSet. This is very important and much neglected development practice to overlook the performance part. So when you have huge data and you are getting multiple hit this
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You all probably know what is “var”. You might have a question why this new keyword is required in programming language like C#. One of the few strong reasons is to have an Anonymous Type stored in a variable. Whenever you have to initialize a type you
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LINQ to SQL designer in Visual Studio allows us to create mapped class using the drag and drop feature from Server Explorer. Now that is business object which ideally you could use as your datasource and from Visual Studio 2008. So let us have this step
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Some of the best blogs on LINQ to SQL I found are available for great learning, Scott Guthrie The Famous LINQ TO SQL Series Part 1: Using LINQ to SQL Part 2: Defining our Data Model Classes Part 3: Querying our Database Part 4: Updating our Database Part
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