In this tip, Stephen Walther demonstrate how you can create new LINQ to SQL extension methods that enable you to dramatically reduce the amount of code that you are required to write for typical data access scenarios. By taking advantage of LINQ to SQL, you can dramatically reduce the amount of code that you need to write to access a database. LINQ to SQL has given me back several weeks of my life that I would have otherwise wasted in writing tedious ADO.NET code. In short, I am a fan. However, LINQ to SQL is a general data access technology. It is not specific to ASP.NET MVC. You can use LINQ to SQL when building Windows Forms applications, console applications, or just about any other type of Microsoft application. For this reason, it is not...(read more) ...
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