Author: Ben Taylor

Editorials

Is LINQ the New SQL More Readers Respond

Is LINQ the New SQL – More Readers Respond It seems this topic has drawn the interest of many. Here are more responses from our readers. Mahabubur: It’s a wonderful idea you expressed here. I am a software engineer and like T-SQL thus love to write LINQ to SQL. However , always i have to heard that LINQ is very […]

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Is LINQ the New SQL Readers Respond

Is LINQ the New SQL – Readers Respond There are two aspects of every SQL dialect. SQL Statements for managing the database environment itself such as Creating Databases, Creating Tables, views, Indexes, etc. These commands tend have the least amount of variance across different platforms, with the exception of data types. The second aspect is the language used to work […]

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Is LINQ the New SQL Readers Respond

Is LINQ the New SQL – Readers Respond There are two aspects of every SQL dialect. SQL Statements for managing the database environment itself such as Creating Databases, Creating Tables, views, Indexes, etc. These commands tend have the least amount of variance across different platforms, with the exception of data types. The second aspect is the language used to work […]

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LINQ Is It the New SQL?

LINQ – Is It the New SQL? I have been using LINQ for Objects a lot recently. It allows me to leverage my set based skills when processing Dot Net IEnumerable objects. This seems to be something I have to do a lot lately. About the same time, I started looking at NHibernate again. I find it interesting that LINQ […]

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LINQ Is It the New SQL?

LINQ – Is It the New SQL? I have been using LINQ for Objects a lot recently. It allows me to leverage my set based skills when processing Dot Net IEnumerable objects. This seems to be something I have to do a lot lately. About the same time, I started looking at NHibernate again. I find it interesting that LINQ […]

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Developer Skills Reader Comments

Developer Skills Reader Comments Time to close out this topic with a few more comments from our readers. Writing about this topic, and reading the comments from many readers has confirmed to me that it is not just a specific toolset that makes you valuable. It is more important how you use the tools you have. Seek those tools that […]

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Developer Skills Reader Comments

Developer Skills Reader Comments Time to close out this topic with a few more comments from our readers. Writing about this topic, and reading the comments from many readers has confirmed to me that it is not just a specific toolset that makes you valuable. It is more important how you use the tools you have. Seek those tools that […]

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Skills to Seek

Upcoming Events of Notice: Part 3 of the Free "SharePoint Basics" Webcast Series – Next Wednesday Want to learn how to develop custom widgets to fill gaps in SharePoint? Next Wednesday, you can find out about this process for free from MVP Rebecca Isserman! Don’t miss your chance to better understand the components of custom web part development in the […]

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Skills to Seek

Upcoming Events of Notice: Part 3 of the Free "SharePoint Basics" Webcast Series – Next Wednesday Want to learn how to develop custom widgets to fill gaps in SharePoint? Next Wednesday, you can find out about this process for free from MVP Rebecca Isserman! Don’t miss your chance to better understand the components of custom web part development in the […]

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What Tool Should You Learn Next?

What Tool Should You Learn Next? As a follow on to yesterdays editorial about keeping your skills current I wanted to consider how to choose what skills to keep current. I have been following a thread regarding which language is better, C# or VB.net. I don’t have an answer, and none of the responders to the thread had any definitive […]