One of the most frequently asked questions from new Windows Phone developers is how to store data. Prior to Windows Phone 7.5 (also known as "Mango"), the answer was that any data had to be manually ...

The one bright spot in the "using stored procedures for LINQ to SQL data retrieval" picture is the ability to preload EntityRef collections that populate m:1 associations before executing the stored ...

In a nutshell, I want to hear opinions from people using Silverlight, and I want to hear how you handle data access with Silverlight applications. The rest of this post is general rambling ...

Take advantage of the Chunk method in LINQ to split large data sets into a sequence of chunks for more efficient processing. Language-Integrated Query, or LINQ for short, brings a query execution ...

Twice in the past couple of months I’ve gotten tripped up by the same data issue when using LINQ to Entities in the .NET framework. I create a simple view in my database which performs some ...