Hi Fabio.

In your experience , Does Linq have any impications for performance. Is it faster or slower....does having the Linq layer mean that performance suffers ?



Also, your comments on Grids.... I have found that I copuld not do woithout a Grid..thats right from Dos Foxpro(Browse) , to VFP to .Net.
What do you use instead og a Grid to show columns of data ?

Regards,
Gerard



>Hi Gerard,
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>Does this mean that , say I am using a non Sql Server database, LINQ is of no use ??
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>This means that, if you are using Sql Server, Linq to Sql is currently useless. But Linq in general is fully available. IMO, it is a mistake to see Linq exclusively as a means to access data from databases. Linq was born on the language itself (C# and VB) and its main intent is to access collections of data in memory. Its variations (Linq to Xml, Linq to Sql, Linq to Entities, etc) are actually consequences of the power of Linq.
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>. Or can I use Linq with Objects , and if so, How would I get stuff Into the Object, then use Linq, and then get stuff out of the object and back into my database.
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>This is really an option!
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>One ot the things I have noticed with .net, is that you cannot really use it in a stand alone basis. I keep coming up with Problems all the time, that simply cannot be done in .net....I find this very surprising for the premier development tool from Microsoft.
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>My experience is quite different. I work exclusivelly with .Net since 2004 and so far I was able to do absolutelly everything I needed using .Net. It is important to keep in mind that .Net is not only what Visual Studio shows us. .Net is a coplete platform, with its runtime engine; programming languages; libraries and developer tools.
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>The most recent issuse I had was in an ASP.net web form. I was trying to set up a Grid which could be navigated in a simple fashion using up and down arrow keys...This is a requirement I have used in almost every application I have ever developed...simple enough I thought...Visual Studio.net to the rescue...afraid not...it just cannot do this out of the box...I eventually ended up purchasing a product call Spread from Farpoint which does a good job at , In my honest opinion, is a very basic requirement.
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>I understand that some simple requirements are not always implemented on the native Microsoft controls. But the nice thing is that we can always implement our own controls - most of the time in a easy way and using the same tools we use on our everyday work (such as Visual Studio). I personaly consider GridView an already excessively complex control. Sometimes I tend to avoid its use simply because I foresee eventual customizations in the future.
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>Regards,