
LINQPad: Autocompletion has Arrived!
LINQPad now offers an add-on that implements full autocompletion for C# 3.0!
Download LINQPad here (or if
you already have LINQPad, it will update itself automatically). A single-user license is
currently just $19.
10 LINQ Myths
The ten most common misconceptions, and how
they set people awry.
C# 3.0 Pocket Reference + LINQ Pocket Reference
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These books are for people that want to eat their cake and have it. Despite their
small size, they don't sacrifice readability or detail and are packed with useful
and complete information on C# 3.0 and LINQ. These books, in fact, may be all you
need to get up to speed with the C# language and LINQ!
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C# 3.0 in a Nutshell
The top-selling C# 3.0 in a Nutshell includes everything
in the two pocket references, plus detailed coverage of the CLR and core .NET Framework.
Its new format is radical departure from previous editions, providing much greater
depth and readability. Find out more
LINQPad
Ever used SQL Management Studio and wished you could type your queries in LINQ,
rather than antiquated SQL? Well now you can! LINQPad
is a free tool that lets you dynamically query SQL databases in a real query language: you'll
never have to struggle with a correlated subquery again!
Query Express
This simple and free 100KB database query tool written in C# allows SQL commands
to be run interactively on SQL Server, Oracle or an OLE-DB compliant databases.
It includes an object browser, text/grid results, saving to XML/CSV format, and
support for batching via the 'GO' keyword. No installation required. Full source
code available. More on Query Express...
Threading in C#
An extensive article on
multithreading in C#. This tackles
difficult issues such as
thread safety, when to use
Abort,
Wait Handles vs Wait and Pulse, the implications of
Apartment Threading in Windows Forms, using
Thread Pooling,
Synchronization Contexts, Memory Barriers and
non-blocking
synchronization constructs.
Full Contents
More Articles
Dynamically building
LINQ expression predicates This describes a simple and elegant solution
to the problem of dynamically composing Expression<> based predicates in LINQ.
Speeding up LINQ
to SQL Three ways to squeeze the maximum performance out of this technology.
Value Types vs Reference Types A tutorial explaining
how value and reference types work in C# and .NET. This covers the differences
in the way objects are created and disposed, how memory allocation works, and common
traps.
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