Monthly Archives: September 2007

Developing, Hosting (with custom .NET application) and Testing a WCF Service using Visual Studio 2008 beta

Posted on September 19, 2007 by Jag

Hello guys,   The following sample demonstrates the development of a WCF Service library together with a custom application hosting (the "WCF Service library" as a "WCF Service") and finally accessing the same using WCF Service Client (windows forms client).  … Continue reading →

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Part 3: Learning LINQ from SQL using Visual Basic 2008 – Grouping

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Jag

To execute the LINQ statements provided in this post, I suggest you to go through Part-1 (http://jagchat.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!41050F68F010A662!913.entry), where I demonstrated the same.   A simple example on GROUP..BY..operator of LINQ: The following SQL SELECT      SELECT Deptno, COUNT(*) FROM emp GROUP … Continue reading →

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Part 2: Learning LINQ from SQL using Visual Basic 2008 – WHERE operator

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Jag

To execute the LINQ statements provided in this post, I suggest you to go through Part-1 (http://jagchat.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!41050F68F010A662!913.entry), where I demonstrated the same.   A simple example on WHERE operator of LINQ: The following SQL SELECT      SELECT ename, sal FROM emp … Continue reading →

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Part 1: Learning LINQ from SQL using Visual Basic 2008 – Selecting columns, DISTINCT, ORDER BY

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Jag

For this sample, I simply created an ASP.NET 3.5 web site project (using Visual Studio 2008 beta 2) and dragged a GridView on to a web page.  Added a class "Employee.vb" to the project as following (code removed for clarity):  … Continue reading →

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