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So I have been having a problem designing a rather odd LINQ to EF statement the past week and I decided to contact my friend on the Entity Framework team, Erick Thompson. he said oh yah, I created something like what you are looking for in the 101 sample queries. I looked for several hours this weekend to figure out what he was talking about, no luck. So I told him I found nothing and he then pointed me to the Resource of Resources, my own computer!

Open Visual Studio
Click the Help Menu
Select Samples (yah, like I saw that I never use help you know)

Then you will see a window with a list of zip files (I use WinRAR as my compression tool, hence the slightly different icons).

Inside you will find a wealth of demos to get you going with just about anything in the .NET world!!!!

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Posted: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:24 AM

by Chris Love

Filed under: .NET, Useful, Visual Studio 2008

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Dragan Panjkov said:

Awesome tip

# October 29, 2008 2:58 AM

ASPInsiders said:

Did you know that there are samples built right into the Help section of Visual Studio 2008? I didn’t,

# October 30, 2008 11:41 AM

Chris Pietschmann said:

I don't know about you, but for some reason the download page this takes me to is in Japanese. ??... http://msdn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/bb330936.aspx

# November 6, 2008 10:33 PM

species2175 said:

:-) and clicking the 'Visual Studio 2008 Samples' link redirects to......: http://msdn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/bb330936.aspx The welknown language of japanese. Old Mandarin? Ok but japanese hehe.

# November 7, 2008 1:33 AM

Guy Harwood said:

nice tip Chris, cheers

# November 7, 2008 8:50 AM

Rajesh said:

Awesome article

# November 9, 2008 2:13 PM

foobar said:

A nice discovery. However, 1. I see no Entity Framework samples. 2. As other commenters, I'm re-directed to the Japanese MSDN website, albeit my OS and VS2k8 are U.S. versions.

# November 10, 2008 1:38 PM

PAP said:

To go to the english version of the page, just change "ja-jp" to "en-us", like that: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/bb330936.aspx

# November 11, 2008 7:33 AM

Chris Love said:

foobar, nope there are no Entity Framework examples in the code. My EF friend wrote some Linq To SQL samples I think. This sample code shipped before Entity Framework was ready. So keep that in mind.

# November 11, 2008 9:46 AM

Mark said:

What's foobar? same as "fubar"?

# November 11, 2008 10:15 PM

rem said:

nice post...

# November 16, 2008 3:34 AM

Robert Porter said:

foobar is the programmers version of fubar ;) it comes from constantly using foo and bar as example variable names... Bob

# November 16, 2008 10:02 AM

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