I didn't say LINQ was dead. I said LINQ to SQL is dead. Microsoft is putting it's efforts behind Entity Framework for database access. LINQ to Objects and LINQ to XML are alive and well.

>Somebody here told me to use Linq rather the traditonial scanning through the traditional ado.net recordset to aggregate information from a database extraction.
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>Now I'm puzzled. And I'm working in vb.net btw.
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>This seems to work for me btw (osql.execute extracts an access query in a datatable osql.dt).
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>        Dim osql As New sqlClass : osql.Execute("qryBestelKK")
>        Dim orders As IEnumerable(Of DataRow) = osql.dt.AsEnumerable
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>        Dim test = From r In orders _
>                   Group r By name = r.Field(Of String)("KL_Naam") _
>                   Into g = Group Select New With {.Name = name, .total = g.Sum(Function(r) r.Field(Of Decimal)("Bestd_Waarde"))}
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>        For Each r In test
>            Console.WriteLine("name: {0} total {1}", r.Name, r.total)
>        Next
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>Can't begin to imagine why you would say Linq is dead. It is sooooo straightforward :)
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>BTW this is just one of the manipulation I do on that table, but the others are scalars, and they were easier to figure out.
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>Thanks for caring.
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>>>Could somebody translate
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>>>select Kl_Nummer,ArtBtw,sum(bestd_waarde) as netto from [somtable] group by kl_nummer,ArtBtw
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>>>into linq?
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>>>Thanks. Just need to see it done once, or refer me to a link (no pun intended)