LINQtoSQL101_01_01 - Introduction to the LINQ to SQL Workflow

In this video we'll kick off a new series about one of the popular variants of LINQ and that is LINQ to SQL, which takes the concepts of LINQ and extends them to working with collections of data from a SQL Server
database.  LINQ to SQL adds additional concepts, objects and methods for not only retrieving sets of data from a database, but also inserting, updating and deleting data.  We'll also look at how to work with stored
procedures, performance, working with ASP.NET and other similar considerations.

Before you watch this series you should familiarize yourself with LINQ to Object syntax in the C# 301 or VB 301 series on
LearnVisualStudio.NET since we'll assume that you know basic LINQ syntax. 

Ok, so in this first video, I'll just assume that you know absolutely nothing about LINQ to SQL specifically, and I'll show you the basic
series of steps for retrieving data from a SQL Server database to be displayed in a console window.

The key to this video is that we're going to show the basic workflow of how to create a Data Context using the Object Relational Designer, then how to retrieve data and display it on screen.  In subsequent
videos we'll tack on more information and flesh out the examples so that by the end you'll know everything there is to know from a
practitioner's perspective on using LINQ to SQL in your projects.

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LINQtoSQL101_01_01 - Introduction to the LINQ to SQL Workflow Duration: 15 Minutes, 0 Seconds Size: 16.12M Recorded Using: Visual Studio 2008 (all versions)