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Annoucing ThinqLinq.com

posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:46 AM by jwooley
ThinqLinq, the proof of concept web site exclusively using VB and LINQ, is now live. Read More
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More on VS 2008 breaking changes

posted Monday, December 03, 2007 12:49 AM by jwooley
In addition to the items I mentioned in my previous Beta 2 - RTM breaking change list, I found a link on the VS 2008 samples page that a whitepaper has been issued on this. Download the whitepaper at this link: http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/7/e/d7eeb256-5789-411c-a367-c9fda05c2b1c/LINQ_to_SQL_Beta_2_to_RTM_Breaking_Changes.docx Read More
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Projecting XML from LINQ to SQL

posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 2:08 AM by jwooley
Among the new cool features in Visual Studio 2008, one of the best may be the XML Literal support with VB 9 and LINQ. In my last post, I mentioned some changing features from the Beta to RTM. One that could easily be overlooked is a change to the way Read More
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Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) Changes from Beta 2 to RTM

posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 1:53 AM by jwooley
I've just updated the ThinqLinq proof of concept site for the Visual Studio 2008 release that came out today. If you're following the sample application, or are looking for a sample VB 9 implementation of LINQ in a web site, check out the download at Read More
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VS 2008 Beta 2 VPC images will timebomb on 11/1/2007

posted Friday, October 26, 2007 6:13 PM by jwooley
If you downloaded the VPC image version of Visual Studio 2008 beta 2, make sure to back-up your data and move anything off of the Team Foundation Server before November 1, 2007. I was just informed that the images will be time bombing on November 1 2007 Read More
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Creating HTML emails using VB 9 and LINQ

posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 6:41 PM by jwooley
Today, I'm not looking at sending mass spam using LINQ to pull a list of recipients. I'm actually referring to the ability to generate the message body using XML Literals. Using the System.Net.Mail.MailMessage object, we can easily send emails to an SMTP Read More
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Adding RSS posts to ThinqLinq using System.ServiceModel.Syndication.SyndicationFeed

posted Friday, October 12, 2007 12:58 AM by jwooley
When I originally started the ThinqLinq project I began by loading the RSS feed from my DevAuthority blog, and iterating over the results adding them to the PostItems table in the data context. With LINQ this is relatively easy. Loading the XML from the Read More
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Code Snippets and Partial Methods

posted Monday, October 08, 2007 9:59 PM by jwooley
In my VB 9 language enhancements talks, I do them withalmost all coding on the fly as I find people often can comprehend the code. I start by building a quick class that is used throughout the demos. To assist, I do use the snippet functionality in VB. Read More
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Code Camp 2007 downloads

posted Monday, October 08, 2007 9:22 PM by jwooley
I've uploaded the files for my presentations for the fall Code camp season which I just presented last weekend at the Birmingham, Alabama code camp. If you missed the talks, you can pick up the downloads at the following links. Also, I will be at the Read More
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IIF(You.Uses=IIF,Stop,Consider.If(cond,true,false))

posted Friday, September 07, 2007 1:55 AM by jwooley
For a long time, VB has had an operator called IIF which allows you to evaluate a condition and return a true value or false value as a single line evaulation. I'm sure some of you out there have used the IIF function at some point in the past. If you're Read More
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Playing with fire: simulating extension members via Extension Methods

posted Friday, September 07, 2007 1:05 AM by jwooley
As I was listening to Scott Hanselman's Hanselminutes episode on LINQ to XML, he made a statement insinuating that you could add stateful behavior to objects via extension methods. As I was adding a comment stating that it was not possible, I started Read More
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LINQ to SQL Compiled Queries

posted Wednesday, September 05, 2007 1:20 AM by jwooley
As LINQ nears release, people are starting to consider the performance implications that the extra overhead brings. Currently there are two threads on this: thread1, thread2. For those that are intested in the performance implications, I highly recommend Read More
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Using Stored Procedures with LINQ with concurrency checking

posted Monday, August 27, 2007 2:09 AM by jwooley
When submitting data to the database, you need to watch out for concurrency issues (times when different users make simultaneous changes to the same record). To do this, in a disconnected environment, we either need to combine a ID and a TimeStamp column Read More
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ThinqLinq demo app updated for Beta 2

posted Sunday, August 26, 2007 2:18 AM by jwooley
For anyone who has attended my presentations on ThinqLinq I have updated the sample solution for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. Feel free to download it and try it out. If you have not had the opportunity to attend the sessions live, you can see it in action Read More
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Use the new LINQ "Contains" extension method for the SQL "IN" clause

posted Monday, August 06, 2007 6:44 PM by jwooley
For a while, users were requesting a way to map the SQL "IN" clause as in the following: SELECT Customer.Name FROM CustomerWHERE Customer.State IN ('GA', 'FL', 'AL') Prior to Beta 2, this would mean either separate OR clauses for each item, or worse Read More
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