With their Language-INtegrated Query (LINQ), Microsoft developed a very powerful extension to their .NET programming languages. It offers a uniform technique to query all different kinds of data (SQL, XML, collection of objects, etc.) There are many introductions and resources at the web about th...

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.NET or Team Developer, that is the question. Of course there are other options: a) rewrite it in Java; b) Packaged Solution; c) drop the application; d) assembler. However, for this article I'd like to focus on one simple dilemma: Option 1: Change the platform to Microsoft .NET Opt...

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