Every LINQ blog I found there seemed around 2 years old, I understand the syntax but need more direction on creating the SQL mapping and context classes. I just need to use LINQ for 2 SQL tables I have, nothing complicated. Do folks write the SQL mapping classes by hand for such cases or is there a decent tool for this? Can someone po...
Please excuse the context of my question for I did not know how to exactly word it. To not complicate things further, here's my business requirement: "bring me back all the Employees where they belong in Department "X". So when I view this, it will display all of the Employees that belong to this Department. Here's my environment: Sil...
I am trying to get the below linq query to return -1 if there isn't any current value. I was looking at this article on MSDN, here, and it seemed that DefaultIfEmpty() was what I wanted. Unfortunately, I am getting a The type arguments cannot be inferred from the usage. Try specifying the type arguments explicitly. error. I guess I a...
Hi, I'm looking for an algorithm to calculate total cost of licenses purchased based on the "FogBugz for your server" pricing scheme (http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/PriceList.html). Fogbugz pricing is: 1 License $299 5 License Pack $999 10 License Pack $1,899 20 License Pack $3,499 50 License Pack $7,999 If you ask a quo...
I have the following xml data: <portfolio> <item> <title>Site</title> <description>Site.com is a </description> <url>http://www.site.com</url> <photos> <photo url="http://www.site.com/site/thumbnail.png" thumbnail="true" description="Main" /> <photo url="http://www.site.com/site/1.png" thumbnail="fals...
I'm working with a C# and Linq to SQL Winforms app and needed to integrate backup and restores through the program. I used SMO and got it working pretty smoothly. The issue, however, is that the app is deployed using ClickOnce, which I like very much - but since I had to include the dll's the download size jumped from 3mb => 15mb. I know...
I am wanting to loop through this list of name value pairs and grab them in groups of 4. The data would be like: value1 1 value2 1 value3 1 value4 1 value1 2 value2 2 value3 2 value4 2 and it would group it as 1 list that contains value1 1 value2 1 value3 1 value4 1 and another list that contains value1 2 value2 2 value3 2 value...
Hi, I'm trying to recreate a SyndicationFeed object (System.ServiceModel.Syndication) from XML data that has been stored locally. If I were working with XMLDocument, this would be easy.I'd call LoadXml(string). The SyndicationFeed will only load from an XMLReader. The XMLReader will only take a Stream or another XMLReader or a TextRe...
This lambda does not compile, but I do not understand why. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Linq.Expressions; using LinqKit; namespace ConsoleApplication2 { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { var barModel = new BarModel(); ...
I have the following LINQ expression that's not returning the appropriate response var query = from quote in db.Quotes where quote.QuoteStatus == "Estimating" || quote.QuoteStatus == "Rejected" from emp in db.Employees where emp.EmployeeID == quote.EmployeeID orderby qu...
I have the following Linq Expression var tooDeep = shoppers .Where(x => x.Cart.CartSuppliers.First().Name == "Supplier1") .ToList(); I need to turn the name part into the following string. x.Cart.CartSuppliers.Name As part of this I turned the Expression into a string and then split on the . and removed the First() argumen...
Hey All, Im trying to query the Netflix OData feed. I have the following query that works fine in LinqPad: from g in Genres from t in g.Titles where g.Name == "Horror" && t.AverageRating == 2 && t.ReleaseYear == 2004 select t But, when I move it over to my Silverlight app, the user selects what to search on so I may or may not have al...
In my VB.net apps i make use of Linq2SQL and Reportviewer with RDLC reports. With Visual Studio 2010 they upgraded this reportviewer component so you can use the newer RDL specification from 2008. Now I've a problem to show related objects. For example assume you provide an order to the datasource of the report and then you can show so...
I have a Message table and a User table. Both are in separate databases. There is a userID in the Message table that is used to join to the User table to find things like userName. How can I create this in LINQ to SQL? I can't seem to do a cross database join. Should I create a View in the database and use that instead? Will that work?...
I have two tables (TABLE1, TABLE2 - unique i know) that has a 1-to-many relationship respectively and a foreign key between ID columns of both tables. Using linq2sql I am trying to select all TABLE1 entries such that their corresponding TABLE2 values contains at least 1 item in the list I pass it. Here's some sample code I was using in...
Say I have a L2S Update and I would like to display what changed to the user. Where does GetChangeSet() get populated? Immediately after I assign values or after context.SubmitChanges()? If the second; I could, theoretically, change the return type to IList and then return return context.GetChangeSet().Updates;? ...
I have this LINQ to XML enquiry... var Records = from Item in XDoc.Root.Elements("Item") where (string)Item.Element("ItemNumber") == item.ID.ToString select Item; ... where ItemNumber is a reference number used in the XML, (originally written by this program but manually edited by "others"), and item.ID is ...
In a non-Silverlight world, it is easy to use LINQ to create an ObservableCollection. This is because the ObservableCollection class has constructors that accept any IEnumerable<T> or List<T>. However, the Silverlight version does not! This means that code such as: var list = (from item in e.Result select new ViewModel(it...
I've got a static class containing a static field which makes reference to a wrapper object of a DataContext. The DataContext is basically generated by Visual Studio when we created a dbml file & contains methods for each of the stored procedures we have in the DB. Our class basically has a bunch of static methods that fire off each of...
public class InvestorMailing { public string To { get; set; } public IEnumerable<string> Attachments { get; set; } public int AttachmentCount { get; set; } public long AttachmentSize { get; set; } } i have an IList<InvestorMailing> mailingList. if the attachment size is greater than x, then i need to split my object...