Suppose different departments in your business spoke different languages: English in software development, French in accounting, German in human resources, and Spanish in marketing. This scenario ...

You don't ever have to write a complicated LINQ/Entity Framework query, but you do need to know when to call the ToList method on your query. Here's a tip on both.

You have a method like this that returns a collection of premium Customer objects: Public Function GetPremiumCustomers() As List(of Customer) Dim db As New dbContextObject Return From c In ...

If you start "thinking in LINQ" you'll get more done with less code, and what you write will be simpler than using SQL. Switching to LINQ and the Entity Framework (EF) means that code you'll write for ...

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Because I almost never write long linq queries in Linq to Objects without just converting to the pipeline-esque (or fluent if you prefer) style via extensions methods.

So I'm playing around with Visual Studio 2010 while we think about moving our projects to it, and I was trying to make a new Silverlight 4 app, but when I go to add any kind of of data models (ADO, ...