LINQ to Northwind Sample (Visual Basic)

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  • Press F5.

Demonstrates

LINQ to Northwind is a LINQ to SQL database example program. The Samples.vb file contains fifteen sample LINQ to SQL queries stored in static methods that are named sequentially as Sample1(), Sample2(), and so on. By default, the main file in the project, Program.vb, will call Sample1(). Edit Program.vb to call the other samples. For example, to call the second sample, change the call to Samples.Sample1() to read Samples.Sample2().