Feature tour

This tour walks you through what PLINQO adds to LINQ to SQL, with code samples from the Tracker sample application. Most pages also have a short video. You can also take the PLINQO feature tour on the CodeSmith website.

Project features

How PLINQO sets up and maintains your project.

• The QuickStart: a working solution in seconds.
• Customization and refactoring: sync database changes and keep your customizations.
• Data Services and WCF: Data Services and WCF support with one property.

Data access features

What PLINQO adds to your entities and queries.

• Entity enhancements: detach, clone and serialize entities.
• Enum generation: turn lookup tables into enums.
• Many-to-many relationships: work with many-to-many relationships directly.
• Query extensions: composable query methods with comparison operators.

Business logic features

How PLINQO helps enforce and track changes to your data.

• Auditing: record what changed, with before and after values.
• Using the rules engine: validation, assignment and security rules.

Performance features

How PLINQO makes data access faster.

• Caching: cache query results with profiles, groups and providers.
• Future queries: batch queries into one round trip.
• Performance improvements: batch updates and deletes, multiple result sets and batch queries.