Just a quick post in case anyone is wasting 10 minutes figuring out how to do this.  For me, this came up because in encoding) So, in my C# code, here is what you need to convert to the Linq.Binary:Linq.Binary carrierMatrix = new ASCIIEncoding().GetBytes(myString);And, to go back from Linq.Binary:string carrierMatrixString = [...]

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  I often speak very highly of Group By,

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  So, I’m really enjoying using LINQ and specifically

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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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  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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In this article, it is shown how important it can be to use the CompileQuery class when using LINQ to SQL. Doing a simple query in LINQ to SQL verses ADO.NET is shown to run 37 times slower without taking advantage of the Compile feature in LINQ to SQL. If you are doing the same query over and over in LINQ to SQL, this is a no brainer. I’m surprised I did not know this myself previously.

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