One of the most frequently asked questions from new Windows Phone developers is how to store data. Prior to Windows Phone 7.5 (also known as "Mango"), the answer was that any data had to be manually ...

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 ...

I worked out how to get LINQ to send the current datetime when I'm inserting new records (I just set the AutoGenerated value = TRUE for the field in my dbml file and then in the database provide a ...

Fluent NHibernate provides a Fluent API also enables you to use LINQ to query data on top of the NHibernate engine ORMs (object relational mappers) simplify data access in your application by allowing ...

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So I've got this large dataset...call it t_Data, it's pretty easy to cut it up with a where condition in LINQ, but I want to be able to interrogate another dataset....call it q_Category (which ...

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