Not Necessarily Dot Net : newb, Linq

Linq to SQL Designer Weirdness

JamesAshley — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:01:00 GMT

The Linq to SQL designer that's built into Visual Studio 2008 is pretty, and a huge improvement over what Microsoft's provided before, in terms of data modelling. I haven't used enough other OR/M's to really have an opinion about how it...(read more)

Linq to SQL and enums

JamesAshley — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:10:00 GMT

This is really stupid, but it seems like enough of a stupid niche problem that it might be worth mentioning. There's an integer column in a database that maps to an enum. Whenever I tried to mark that enum as a column, I got an InvalidCastException...(read more)