Suppose different departments in your business spoke different languages: English in software development, French in accounting, German in human resources, and Spanish in marketing. This scenario ...

LINQ with Entity Framework has become so common that, when I'm looking at a client's code I'm finding some pretty scary-looking LINQ queries running against Entity Framework. Since I'm a big fan of ...

You have a method like this that returns a collection of premium Customer objects: Public Function GetPremiumCustomers() As List(of Customer) Dim db As New dbContextObject Return From c In ...

If you start "thinking in LINQ" you'll get more done with less code, and what you write will be simpler than using SQL. Switching to LINQ and the Entity Framework (EF) means that code you'll write for ...

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from ...

I am not really even sure how to Google search for this, as I am not really sure how to formulate the question, so I'll try and give an example. I am using LINQ-XML to parse an input file that I want ...

So I'm playing around with Visual Studio 2010 while we think about moving our projects to it, and I was trying to make a new Silverlight 4 app, but when I go to add any kind of of data models (ADO, ...