Now that I'm feeling a bit more comfortable with LINQ to SQL and LINQ to XML, I really wanted to begin exploring the ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ to Entities. I started by going to msdn.microsoft.com/data and installed the ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3 and ADO.NET Entity Framework Tools CTP 2 (for Beta 3). At first glance, I didn't notice anything new being provided by the Tools CTP, so I started a simple C# Console Application. From the Add New Item menu, I noticed an ADO.NET Entity Data ......
I've been playing around with LINQ to Objects and have come across something quite odd... Say we have this statement: Dim myCustomers = From customer In customers _ Where customer.Id = 5 _ Select customer.Id, _ FullName = customer.FirstName & _ " " & customer.LastName For Each customer In myCustomers.Distinct() Console.WriteLine(customer.... Next FullName becomes a ReadOnly Property here and acts as if it belonged to the Customer class. Now, say we take out the first field in the select ......
So Monday (11/19/07) marked the RTM of Visual Studio 2008 and Framework 3.5. There's so many new features. I already feel way behind. I started playing with some of the language enhancements to Visual Basic 9. My aren't we growing up! All object-oriented languages have some similarities to some degree, but Microsoft has been taking leaps forward into making its OO languages more robust with each version of the framework. The first that I had to sit down and code something for myself to grasp is the ......