Peter Vogel introduces a new column on application development in the real world, and begins by advocating for Language Integrated Query. Welcome to Practical .NET, a new column offering how-to ...

Many developers use LINQ without fully realizing the power at their fingertips. The features of the language enable queries of in-memory collections or external data sources, and Microsoft has ...

HBase is a distributed, scalable, big data storage and retrieval system developed as part of the Apache Hadoop project. As a Java framework, HBase must use Java APIs, resulting in single-platform ...

Fluent NHibernate provides a Fluent API also enables you to use LINQ to query data on top of the NHibernate engine ORMs (object relational mappers) simplify data access in your application by allowing ...

I just wanted to share my excitement on the discovery of everything LINQ can do. I had initially seen it as "oh, it lets you write your SQL straight in the C#. I guess that's nice, but I use stored ...

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