N Satheesh Kumar - LINQ Quickly

Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is a new feature in Visual Studio 2008 that extends its query capabilities using C# and Visual Basic. Visual Studio 2008 comes with LINQ provider assemblies that enable the use of LINQ with data sources, such as in-memory collections, SQL relational databases, ADO.NET Datasets, XML documents, etc. In Visual Studio 2008, Visual C# and Visual Basic are the languages that implement the LINQ language extensions. LINQ language extensions use the new standard query operators, API, which is the query language for any collection that implements IEnumerable. This book introduces the reader to the basic concepts of LINQ, and takes them through using LINQ with an example-driven approach.