LINQ for Visual VB 2005

by Ferracchiati, Fabio Claudio

• ISBN13: 9781590598405
• ISBN10: 1590598407
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-31
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

The future of .NET data access is already here--and it's a very bright one!

Table of Contents

LINQ to Objects	p. 1
A Simple VB LINQ to Objects Program	p. 1
Extension Methods	p. 3
Lambda Expressions	p. 4
Object Initialization Expressions	p. 5
Anonymous Types	p. 6
Implicitly Typed Local Variables	p. 7
Query Evaluation Time	p. 8
Standard Query Operators	p. 11
Restriction Operator	p. 18
Projection Operators	p. 20
Join Operators	p. 24
Grouping Operator	p. 27
Ordering Operators	p. 31
Aggregate Operators	p. 36
Partitioning Operators	p. 43
Concatenation Operator	p. 46
Element Operators	p. 47
Generation Operators	p. 53
Quantifier Operators	p. 55
Equality Operator	p. 57
Set Operators	p. 58
Conversion Operators	p. 60
LINQ to ADO.NET	p. 67
Database Interaction	p. 68
DataContext: Advanced Features	p. 80
Other LINQ to SQL Features	p. 90
LINQ to SQL in Visual Studio 2005	p. 108
A DLinq Designer Example	p. 109
LINQ to DataSet	p. 123
LINQ to XML	p. 127
Querying XML	p. 127
Searching for Attribute Values	p. 130
The Descendants and Ancestors Methods	p. 131
Querying XML for Content Type	p. 132
Querying an XML Document That Uses Schemas	p. 133
The Elements Before This and Elements After This Methods	p. 135
Miscellaneous Functionalities	p. 136
Creating and Modifying XML Documents	p. 139
Creating an XML Document from Scratch	p. 140
Loading and Saving XML	p. 145
Modifying XML	p. 147
LINQ to XML and LINQ to SQL	p. 153
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