Dot Net Fluke: Getting by on C# for iSeries RPG Developers

Useful tutorials on C# and .NET for RPG iSeries AS/400 developers. Brought to you from the folks at AranRock Consulting

5/5/08

LINQ to DB2 Beta available tomorrow

 

As you probably know the geeks at IBM have been scrambling to put together a LINQ to DB2 Entity framework ever since LINQ was announced - and by jove they've done it! 
You know what LINQ is right? It allows you to query data in C# and refer to columns in tables  by their column names directly just as you would any field in your C# program. Yes I know, this seems like an uber basic requirement for any language but at least it is done.
Initially LINQ had only SQL, XML and in-memory fields were supported but IBM, Oracle and MySQL quickly started getting in on the act to support their dbs.
We've learned here at Dot Net Fluke that IBM will announce tomorrow (May 6th) a beta of the LINQ to DB2 beta. We'll post the link when it comes available.
The bad news is that it is not yet available for the iSeries. So we'll all just have to sit and wait!

Update: Here's the announcement IBM Announces LINQ to DB2 connector

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