Ready to take advantage of LINQ with C# 3.0? This guide has the detail
you need to grasp Microsoft's new querying technology, and concise
explanations to help you learn it quickly. And once you begin to apply
LINQ, the book serves as an on-the-job reference when you need immediate
reminders.
All the examples in the LINQ Pocket Reference are preloaded into
LINQPad, the highly praised utility that lets you work with LINQ
interactively. Created by the authors and free to download, LINQPad will
not only help you learn LINQ, it will have you thinking in LINQ.
This reference explains:
- LINQ's key concepts, such as deferred execution, iterator chaining,
and type inference in lambda expressions
- The differences between local and interpreted queries
- C# 3.0's query syntax in detail-including multiple generators,
joining, grouping, query continuations, and more
- Query syntax versus lambda syntax, and mixed syntax queries
- Composition and projection strategies for complex queries
- All of LINQ's 40-plus query operators
- How to write efficient LINQ to SQL queries
- How to build expression trees from scratch
- All of LINQ to XML's types and their advanced use
LINQ promises to be the locus of a thriving ecosystem for many years to
come. This small book gives you a huge head start.
"The authors built a tool (LINQPad) that lets you experiment with LINQ
interactively in a way that the designers of LINQ themselves don't
support, and the tool has all kinds of wonderful features that LINQ, SQL
and Regular Expression programmers alike will want to use regularly long
after they've read the book."-Chris Sells, Connected Systems Program
Manager, Microsoft
