Posts Tagged ‘Tips’

Writing Custom Exception Classes the Quick Way

Until recently I thought this was a well-known feature. After demonstrating it a few times, I found out it wasn’t. A long time ago, in an cubicle far, far away, someone created the .Net Framework. To cut a long story short, they simultaneously produced guidelines for creating Exception classes, which you should always use or [...]

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How to See the SQL Generated by a LINQ to SQL Command

Quick tip: If you want to see the SQL generated by LINQ to SQL for a query or command, simply set the Log property of your generated DataContext class to an instance of a TextReader. If this is your code: using System; using System.Linq; using System.Data.Linq; namespace LINQtoSQLConsole { class Program { static void Main(string[] [...]

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