Some Common Methods
As you will soon see, many of the examples in the LINQ to SQL chapters become complex very quickly. Demonstrating a concurrency conflict requires making changes to the database external to LINQ to SQL. Sometimes, I need to retrieve data externally of LINQ to SQL too. To highlight the LINQ to SQL code and to eliminate as many of the trivial details as possible, while at the same time providing real working examples, I have created some common methods to use in many of the examples.
Be sure to add these common methods to your source modules as appropriate when testing the examples in the LINQ to SQL chapters.
GetStringFromDb()
A common method that will come in handy is a method to obtain a simple string from the database using ...
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