While searching for something completely different i stumbled on the MS Linq project. Now i am wondering what will the impact of this be on O/R-mapper vendors such as Solutions Design?

Personally, i am attracted by the concept. I have a background in 4GL's and have always thought that with the decline of the 4GLs and rising of the Visual set of tools something valuable was lost: interacting with the database as an integral part of the language (and still be independent of the specific database)

more info: http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/future/linq/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/linqprojectovw.asp

See: http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/ And: http://www.llblgen.com/tinyforum/Messages.aspx?ThreadID=4116

Let me add to that, that v2.0 of LLBLGen Pro will have a nice surprise in this area related to collection objects

Otis wrote:

Let me add to that, that v2.0 of LLBLGen Pro will have a nice surprise in this area related to collection objects

now you will make loose sleep over this... I just hate surprises.. can't we get a peak

omar wrote:

Otis wrote:

Let me add to that, that v2.0 of LLBLGen Pro will have a nice surprise in this area related to collection objects

now you will make loose sleep over this... I just hate surprises.. can't we get a peak

Look at the new query system in 1.0.2005.1. Add to that 'collection' and you do the math

Otis wrote:

Look at the new query system in 1.0.2005.1. Add to that 'collection' and you do the math

Sorry I didn't get a chance to have a closer look at the beta, but are you talking about the overloading of operators to build predicates or is it something else...

MacDennis,

Thanks for the pointers to other the threads. I must be doing too many things at the same time, not taking the time to search the forum first .

And i think i will plan some time to invest the beta.

omar wrote:

Otis wrote:

Look at the new query system in 1.0.2005.1. Add to that 'collection' and you do the math

Sorry I didn't get a chance to have a closer look at the beta, but are you talking about the overloading of operators to build predicates or is it something else...

The overloaded operators indeed. So compile time checked filters, with native language constructs (hey, wasn't linq doing the same thing ) and not only working on the db