I've found and posted a new fix in the code from my original post: Batch Updates and Deletes with LINQ to SQL.  I'm not sure of the etiquette for this sort of thing: new post (like I'm doing) or just a comment in the original post.  But since I did get a fair amount of hits to the article but minimal comments, people who may have downloaded the code wouldn't get an update notification and I want to be sure to make them aware of an issue/fix (assuming they are monitoring via a RSS feed).... [More]

A couple weeks ago, I read the article, LINQ to SQL Extension: Batch Deletion with Lambda Expression by Jeffrey Zhao.  In case you didn't read the article, it discusses the downside of most O/R Mapping frameworks when it comes to multiple updates or deletes.  He states the fact that a SQL statement for each row flagged as update/delete in the entity set is created.  I went about implementing something similar to what Jeffrey envisioned and I'll explain some of the hurdles I had to overcome to achieve it.... [More]

At my day job, we use Microsoft Excel spreadsheets as a pseudo "specification document" (spec sheet) for the websites, which are actuarial in nature, we create.  At the time (several years back), since we chose Excel, obviously we needed an add-in for the few automated processes we supported and we needed something immediately (you know how it goes in small companies).  The easiest way for us to create the add-in we needed was to create an Excel add-in file (*.xla).  My background (5-6 years ago) was from VB6 anyway, so even though I'd switched to C#, VB6 was still fresh in my mind and writing VBA was a breeze - whether the code was clean or not, I've got not comment ;).  I've recently made the decision to migrate an existing Microsoft Excel Add-In (*.xla) file to managed C# code.  There were several motivating factors to this decision along with almost as many speed bumps... [More]