LINQ to SQL continues to be a top contender in the .NET object/relational mapping tool market despite Microsoft's promotion of the Entity Framework as one of the "Pillars of SQL Server 2008: Dynamic ...

The one bright spot in the "using stored procedures for LINQ to SQL data retrieval" picture is the ability to preload EntityRef collections that populate m:1 associations before executing the stored ...

Twice in the past couple of months I’ve gotten tripped up by the same data issue when using LINQ to Entities in the .NET framework. I create a simple view in my database which performs some ...

I notice when I have an XML file within the App_Data folder, my Linq statements offer autocomplete. However, I want to keep certain things outside of the App_Data folder but query them with Linq...I ...