Andrew Conrad
Andrew Conrad is a Lead Software Design Engineer with the SQL Server group at Microsoft Corporation. He was one of the core designers of the LINQ over DataSet and LINQ to Entities technologies and has been working with the LINQ project since close to its inception.
His current projects include codename Project “Astoria” (REST over Entities) and the codename Project “Jasper” incubation project (ADO.NET for Dynamic languages). For more information on these projects see: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/data/bb419139.aspx.
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Rich Query for DataSet- An Introduction to LINQ to DataSet
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2007 - Vol. 4 - Issue 3 - Data Programability
For years developers have been asking for query over data contained in a DataSet in a way that supports the expressiveness needed by today’s data-centric .NET applications. As part of the .NET framework 3.5, Microsoft® will introduce support for a technology called Language Integrated Query (LINQ), and with this introduction, an implementation of LINQ to DataSet.