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Originally Posted by brecklundin
LINQ might be one of the biggest 'secrets' out there today. I read the doco on it a few years back and thought it was a can't miss sort of thing. Yet, few if any developers even know it exists.
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You'd think spending the last two years telling everyone about it would get the word out, but it's amazing how wall-eyed people can be. :P
Which is a pity, since there's some really slick things you can do with the underlying features.
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Originally Posted by brecklundin
BTW, I really recommend the Express editions of the MS tools if that is the way you feel you want to go. They are suprisingly excellent tools. Especially SQL Server Express which lets you run and test SQL server databases w/o a need to a full SQL server. It's much better then the old MSDE.
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Indeed.