Tired of querying in antiquated SQL?

Well, you don't have to!  LINQPad lets you interactively query SQL databases in a modern query language: LINQ.  Kiss goodbye to SQL Management Studio!

LINQPad supports everything in C# 3.0 and Framework 3.5:

• LINQ to SQL
• LINQ to Objects
• LINQ to XML

LINQPad is also a terrific tool for learning LINQ: it comes preloaded with 200 examples from the recently released C# 3.0 in a Nutshell.  There's no better way to experience the coolness of LINQ and functional programming.

LINQPad is free and needs no installation: just download and run.  The executable is only 1MB and is self-updating.

© 2007 Joseph Albahari

Step 1: Create a ASP.NET Dynamic Data Site:

Once you have the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP release installed, you can use VS 2008 or the free Visual Web Developer 2008 Express to create a new Web Site or Web Application Project that has the ASP.NET dynamic data support enabled:

Learning More

The above walk-through only touches on a few of the scenarios and capabilities you can enable with ASP.NET Dynamic Data Projects.  To learn more:

1. Watch David's webcast
2. Check out the ASP.NET Dynamic Data QuickStarts
3. Subscribe to David Ebbo's, Scott Hunter's, and Marcin Dobosz's blogs
4. Visit the ASP.NET Dynamic Data Forum to ask questions
   

If you're having issues installing Visual Studio 2008 RTM and had installed Visual Studio 2008 RC or if you want to remove it. You might want to consider using the following tool, which cleanly removes Visual Studio 2008 RC or RTM.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vs2008/bb968856.aspx

NOTE: this tool does not remove .NET Framework 3.5. You should use the following .NET Framework uninstall tool to do so.

http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/ ... 59905.aspx

Here's my personal selection of the top 3 serious replacements that are similar - but better...
1:

here


2:

here


3:

here


Nice!

"In an ideal object world, there would be no need for databases. Objects would serialize and deserilize itself." – David West [Object Thinking].