Scott Guthrie recently wrote a series of blog posts about the new LINQ To Sql features of VS2008. I’ve recently had the opportunity to use this technology for the first time in commercial code and found the posts a valuable resource. To save the hassle of browsing around the blog however, Kadir Pekel placed the whole series (all 9 parts) into a handy pdf file.
http://it-box.blogturk.net/2007/10/19/linq-to-sql-tutorial-series-by-scott-guthrie-pdf-book-format/
It’s easy reading, highlighting each aspect of LINQ To Sql: how it works; how to customize it; and where best to use it. When reading ‘cover-to-cover’ you can see there is a fair chuck of repetition in between the sections, but then that just helps it work well as a quick reference guide. LINQ To Sql itself is going to vastly improve my current development projects, especially with it’s simple ability to page efficiently over large amounts of data (a hassle to do in Sql once you factor in what column you are ordering by).
