So, sometimes I feel like “how did I get myself here”.  If you pushed some buttons and didn’t realize you did something, you may find your directory view looks like the following: Well, to clear it, all you have to do is put your cursor at the very bottom of [...]

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  I’ve finally moved my Lenovo W500 over to Windows 7 RC.  What motivated me was my wireless networking was getting really really unstable.  Sometimes it would connect, other times it would not, and it never seemed to want to work at starbucks anymore. So, here I am, and so far, vary happy.  [...]

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  So, you have an enum defined as follows: public enum CompanyAddressType { Unknown = 0, Primary = 1, Warehouse = 2, [...]

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  We’ve built a data access layer on top of LINQ2SQL for dynamically building the layer we call for data access.  It’s convenient because we pass in a query object as a parameter that has a bunch of nullable variables in it.  Here is kind of what it looks like: [...]

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  Last night, I had the honor of having dinner with three other LINQ in Action.  Jim is a wealth of knowledge as well as very entertaining.  He had an interesting analogy for what using try/catch statements to handle expected issues.  I’ll leave it up to you to post to his twitter account and [...]

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  Today was my first time doing 2 presentations during the same day at a professional conference (

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  So, I’ve been on kind of a rant lately about how slow uncompiled LINQ2SQL. So, to put some more substance behind my claims, I’ve written a small test application using Visual Studio 2008 that compares the performance of using LINQ2SQL compiled verses non-compiled on a trivial web page. Here are some [...]

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  I’ve been doing a lot of LINQ2SQL lately and just in case I have not said it loud enough how enthusiastic I am about

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  So, I recently blogged about the huge penalty for not compiling your LINQ2SQL.  This problem is so big that it occurred to us that maybe all of LINQ has the problem.  So, time for a simple test.  Below is a very simple program that basically generates a list of Ids.  In one case, [...]

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  So, this is very straight forward, but I sometimes forget it.  I figure I’ll do a short blog post on it so next time I search for it, I’ll probably hit my own blog post. So, say you have a list of objects as follows: public partial class CompanyAddressResult : ResultBase [...]

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  So, I’ve struggled some with this and did not have much help with searching.  Here is the problem. You have a declaration that looks like this: 1: public partial class CompanyQuery { [...]

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