Language Integrated Query (LINQ) for .NET and its System.Query, System.Data.DLink, and System.Xml.XLink classes enable relational-to-object and XML-to-object mapping with first-class CLR data types.

ScaleOut Software has integrated Microsoft's powerful LINQ-based query capability into its in-memory data grid, allowing applications to perform fully distributed queries for grid-based objects.

A SqlDataReader instance and LINQ to XML functional construction combine to enable autogenerating the XML payload for the help file's sample CreateEntity() function from table metadata. Much of the ...

Do you think that LINQ is just another in a long series of odd Microsoft technologies? This database-meets-software-development technology could easily save your development staff time and avoid ...

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Microsoft released the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 beta bits for public download this week. In addition to the usual performance enhancements, bug fixes and stability ...