A group blog from members of the VB team
May 7, 2008May 7, 200805/7/08This post assumes you’ve read my previous Converting SQL to LINQ posts.
I haven’t had much in the way of specific requests for more LINQ posts, so I’d still welcome any suggestions that people want to offer. I did get one request about how to mimic the LIKE keyword functionality in VB LINQ.
February 12, 2008Feb 12, 200802/12/08This post assumes you’ve read the previous posts in this series. It makes the same assumptions as Part 8, and I will pick up where I left off, covering Full Outer Join. Once again, I recognize this isn’t an ideal situation,
January 31, 2008Jan 31, 200801/31/08This post assumes you’ve read the previous posts in this series.
After my post on joins, I’ve had some questions about outer joins. As you can see in part 6, VB9 doesn’t have smooth support for Left or Right join.
January 8, 2008Jan 8, 200801/8/08This post assumes you’ve read the previous posts in this series:
         Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 1: The Basics
         Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 2: FROM and SELECT
         Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 3: DISTINCT, WHERE, ORDER BY and Operators
         Converting SQL to LINQ,
December 31, 2007Dec 31, 200712/31/07This post assumes you’ve read the previous posts in this series:
         Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 1: The Basics
         Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 2: FROM and SELECT
         Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 3: DISTINCT, WHERE, ORDER BY and Operators
         Converting SQL to LINQ,
December 18, 2007Dec 18, 200712/18/07This post assumes you’ve read the previous posts in this series:
         Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 1: The Basics
         Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 2: FROM and SELECT
         Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 3: DISTINCT, WHERE, ORDER BY and Operators
         Converting SQL to LINQ,
December 12, 2007Dec 12, 200712/12/07This post assumes you’ve read the previous posts in this series:
         Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 1: The Basics
         Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 2: FROM and SELECT
         Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 3: DISTINCT, WHERE, ORDER BY and Operators
This post will discuss scalar and aggregate functions.
December 4, 2007Dec 4, 200712/4/07This post assumes you’ve read the previous posts in this series:
Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 1: The Basics
Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 2: FROM and SELECT
Continuing with specific query clauses, I will cover topics related to DISTINCT, WHERE and ORDER BY.
November 28, 2007Nov 28, 200711/28/07This post assumes you’ve read Converting SQL to LINQ, Part 1: The Basics.
I’ve made the following name changes since the last post, which I hope will make the code examples clearer:
·        Customers -> CustomerTable
·        Orders -> OrderTable
·        cust ->
November 19, 2007Nov 19, 200711/19/07As you may already know, VB LINQ statements enable SQL-like syntax for queries in the VB language. LINQ syntax doesn’t match SQL syntax exactly, so if you are already working with SQL or familiar with SQL queries, you may find yourself wanting to convert an existing SQL query to LINQ.
