Linq in Action

by Marguerie, Fabrice

• ISBN13: 9781933988160
• ISBN10: 1933988169
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Manning Pubns Co

Summary

LINQ in Action is a fast-paced, comprehensive tutorial for professional developers who want to use LINQ. This book explores what can be done with LINQ, shows you how it works in an application, and addresses the emerging best practices. It presents the general purpose query facilities offered by LINQ in the upcoming C# 3.0 and VB 9.0 languages. A running example introduces basic LINQ concepts. Readers then learn to query unstructured data using LINQ to XML and relational data with LINQ to SQL. Finally, the book shows how to extend LINQ for custom applications. The book is very practical, anchoring each new idea with running code.

Author Biography

Fabrice Marguerie is a software architect and developer based in Paris, France. Fabrice is a C# MVP has been working with LINQ from the first prototypes.

Table of Contents

Getting Started	p. 1
Introducing LINQ	p. 3
C# and VB.NET language enhancements	p. 44
LINQ building blocks	p. 82
Queirying Objects in Memory	p. 113
Getting familiar with LINQ to Objects	p. 115
Beyond basic in-memory queries	p. 160
Querying Relational Data	p. 203
Getting started with LINQ to SQL	p. 205
Peeking under the covers of LINQ to SQL	p. 237
Advanced LINQ to SQL features	p. 267
Manipulating XML	p. 311
Introducing LINQ to XML	p. 313
Query and transform XML with LINQ to XML	p. 350
Common LINQ to XML scenarios	p. 385
LINQing it All Together	p. 435
Extending LINQ	p. 437
LINQ in every layer	p. 482
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