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Are there any benefits of using LINQ to SQL?
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24/12/2009 09:58:20
Timothy Bryan
Sharpline Consultants
Conroe, Texas, United States
 
 
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Forum:
ASP.NET
Category:
LINQ
Environment versions
Environment:
C# 3.0
OS:
Vista
Network:
Windows 2003 Server
Database:
MS SQL Server
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Thread ID:
01440083
Message ID:
01440531
Views:
46
>>>>>Thanks a lot. I plan to finish watching the videos and then I look at the article.
>>>>
>>>>How does L2S do relationships?
>>>
>>>If the PK/FK defined in the database, it's done automatically by the designer.
>>>
>>>I finished the Introduction course and right now was finishing the second (more in depth course) about what lambda expression is, what are Extension methods, etc. I have much better understanding now - continue to learn.
>>
>>Do you have the need to have a database-agnostic DAL? That seemed to be all the rage a year or two ago, until L2S and EF came along.
>
>Hi,
>EF is also potentially DB agnostic (in that same way the ADO.NET is - the DB supplier needs to make a provider available)
>List of available EF providers here: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/ado-net-entity.aspx
>(admittedly not as extensive as ADO.NET providers - but most of the common ones seem to be there....)
>Best,
>Viv

Interesting I don't see MySQL or VistaDB on that list.
Tim
Timothy Bryan
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