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As I already mentioned in one of my previous post , the SqlBulkCopy is a powerful tool which gives us an option to perform insertion for a large amount of data. The evolution of the ADO.NET creates us the Linq to Sql, as a great O/R Mapping framework from Microsoft kitchen. One of the missing features in Linq to Sql is the ability to use some bulk insert capabilities. In order to improve our Linq to Sql infrastructure I decided to implement the bulk insert as part of the Table class, and I will show...
For the last few weeks I was looking for a complete solution to implement LINQ to SQL in our system. Before I started the searching process I have defined to myself some basic requirements from it: · Rapid development in at least 80% of the cases. · Easy to use , understandable API. · Migration plain or good solution to work with our legacy code . · Easy to maintenance . · Testability framework! One of the major disadvantages of the LINQ to SQL framework is the difficult to test it. If you’ll try...
In the last few months I started to learn one of the great frameworks from Microsoft named LINQ. In order to get a better understand about the LINQ framework I read a lot from the official Microsoft documentation. I even shared people in my thoughts about the LINQ project (I focused on LINQ to SQL with its pervious name D-LINQ), in my blog . After a while I took a time to read the "Pro LINQ" book . This book exposes me to some fundamentals in the LINQ world which I wasn't familiar with...
These two data access strategies should be shipped in the new Visual Studio 2008 (aka "Orcas") but from some reasons Microsoft decided to cut the entity framework from this release and to ship it in the middle of 2008. So what is the different between these two frameworks? When should I choose the Linq to Sql and when do it really recommended to wait for the Entity framework? I decided to look for some answers to these questions, just stay with me few more moments… Category Linq to SQL...