Dynamic Sort With LINQ To SQL

onedotnetway.com — Sometime ago I wrote a post showing how to do dynamic sort with LINQ. That approach worked well with LINQ To Objects. Today I spotted a question on the forums where Levi asked a question about doing dynamic sorts with LINQ To SQL. My earlier approach will work once all the data is retrieved on the client side. This of course is not an ideal way. A better option is to do sorting on database. read more...

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Writing Visual Studio 2010 Shell In WPF Reflects Confidence

onedotnetway.com — Since its inception as Avalon I have dedicated countless hours to the technology we now know as WPF. I can probably say that I am one of the few people who have worked on WPF at a commercial level at least in Australia. This is because the number of projects using WPF have been scarce. And I was fortunate to get involved because of my community work around WPF. I have also tried to convince clients to go with WPF as the preferred choice over Windows Forms. I will admit that I have not been very successful in doing this. The main reason I believe is that WPF has suffered with lack of confidence. While the push has been there from Microsoft, somehow it has not come across very well. We all know about demos about spinning text boxes and playing videos in buttons. These I must say have not conveyed the benefits of WPF to business gracefully. Even though Microsoft has used WPF for their Expression products, it just has not been enough. read more...

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View T-SQL Query Generated By LINQ To SQL

onedotnetway.com — While working with LINQ To SQL there are times when you are interested in looking at the query which will be executed on the database. This post will cover different ways you can capture the query generated by LINQ To SQL. read more...

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Tutorial Reading A Text File Using LINQ | One .Net Way

onedotnetway.com — At times us developers have to deal with delimited text files in our applications. Such files have been around since yonks and I often come across data import/export tasks where delimited files are used. Till now the common way in .NET has been to read each line and then extract data using some sort of creative string functions within for loops. But there is another way by using LINQ. In this tutorial I will show you how to use LINQ to read such data. By the end of tutorial you will appreciate how easy and logical it is to use LINQ for reading data from delimited text files. read more...

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Exam 70-502 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Windows Presentation Foundati

onedotnetway.com — Back in may I posted Part 1 of this series on my old blog. Looking at the statistics it turned out to be one of the highly visited post. Recently I also had a comment asking me when I was publishing other parts of study links. Continuing the same trend here is the second part of this series. read more...

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StyleCop Tutorial | One .Net Way

onedotnetway.com — StyleCop is a source analysis tool for C#. It can be used for analysing source code as opposed to compiled assemblies which is the area for FxCop. StyleCop is currently in version 4.2 and can be downloaded here. In this tutorial I will show you how to use StyleCop. read more...

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Different Ways Of Retrieving Data From Collections

onedotnetway.com — C# as a language has matured over years. We have come a long way from the first version of C# to the current which incorporates LINQ. Here is an example I recently used in a training session. My objective was to show students how we can retrieve items from a collection based on a certain criteria in different ways. read more...

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LINQ To SQL Tutorial | One .NET Way

onedotnetway.com — With .NET Framework 3.5 Microsoft released Language Integrated Query aka LINQ. LINQ enables developers to query data sources using a query like syntax with both C# and VB.NET. These data sources can be collections, SQL Server databases, XML, DataSets etc. Other than what is supplied by Microsoft, LINQ is also extensible. This means that you can query data sources beyond what Microsoft ships. Examples of such implementations are LINQ To Flickr, LINQ To Amazon, LINQ to Google etc. In this article I will show you how you can use LINQ To SQL to perform CRUD operations on a SQL Server database. read more...

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