LINQ
I have been working on getting around the concurrency issues that LINQ has while working with disconnected DataContext's in an nTier environment. I currently have a Timestamp field in all of my tables to act as a row version number to help LINQ keep track of what is going on with my data. Up to this point I haven't had any issues as I have been working with objects that were either stored in session/cache as whole objects or I have been reconstituting the object from a new DataContext prior to updating...
I felt the need to vent a little bit of frustration today as I spent an entire weekend trying my best to figure out how to get LINQ to SQL to support what I consider to be a fairly standard database design concept - many to many relationships. In my case I have a table of Permissions and a table of Accounts. Rather than storing a list of permissions in my Accounts table I simply wanted to store both Accounts and Permissions separately and then link them together with a linking table. I don't think...