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5/20/2008 5:32 PM
 
Larry Daniele


Joined: 5/3/2007
Posts: 58

I'm a little wary jumping into the unknown waters of LINQ and ASP.NET 3.5. Is it really "ready for primetime" and stable with respect to DNN 4.8? I would hate to develop new modules using LINQ and ASP.NET 3.5 only to find that older modules misbehave in this environment.

Is the productivity with LINQ is that much better that it is worth the learning curve "pain"?

I would love to hear folks thoughts on this - especially if you have deployed modules with LINQ and ASP.NET 3.5 on a live business site with other third-party modules.
 
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5/21/2008 1:54 AM
 
Wes Tatters


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Joined: 4/30/2004
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3.5 is the way of the future - however - be aware that your millage may vary with some modules that do not seem to run well under 3.5.

As for LINQ on the other hand - really its just another database abstration tool.

Once you get the hang of it though - creating generic forms and grids is very easy - and much faster than
hand hacking data classes - sure codesmith can be handy in some areas - but you still run into
round trip issues whenever you change a tables schema.

As for stable etc - yep - its very solid - the 3.5 sp1 beta is not as stable - but hey its a beta so whatever,

Westa
 
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5/21/2008 8:25 AM
 
Michael Washington


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I have to agree with Wes, but I have not had any problems with older modules running on asp.net 3.5 (yet).

The learning curve is definitely worth it. I've been using it for 4 months now and not only does it allow me to make a module wit a 50%-75% time and code savings, Linq is actually "fun" to use because of the intellisense help when writig a query.


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5/21/2008 10:47 AM
 
John Valentine

www.webinnovationsystems.com/
Joined: 4/27/2004
Posts: 131

So here I am looking at LINQ too. I have created my LINQ surface, pulled in my tables, and got everything working in a sandbox (NOT DNN). I have had my curiosities  satisfied and started recreating everything in a DNN environment and hit my first snag. Why can't my LINQ datasource find my DataContext class? I checked the namespace and everything is kosher... Any idea's?

Cheers!
John Valentine
http://www.webinnovationsystems.com
 
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5/21/2008 11:52 AM
 
John Valentine

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Joined: 4/27/2004
Posts: 131

Never Mind. I got it.

Cheers!
John Valentine
http://www.webinnovationsystems.com
 
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