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Product Description This book gets you started with LINQ and shows how it will make your programming life easier by making use of new features from the .NET Framework 3.0. This book is split into seven chapters, each of which is dedicated to presenting a feature of LINQ and its usage in real-life scenarios. 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.
Featured Customer Reviews  Not a great tutorial book,
March 28, 2008
If you want a brief overview of what's possible with LINQ and the various implementations, you'll probably find the same information for free across the web. I was hoping for more of a real-world introduction. Good overview and Standard Query Operator reference,
February 27, 2008
Also provided are two simple examples that really help highlight the power and flexibility of LINQ. The first example shows how to create a web site that uses LINQ to populate a data grid and some form elements. The other example shows how to use LINQ against the Outlook object model to retrieve the details of an Outlook contact.
One thing that this book mentions very clearly that hasn't been talked about much is that LINQ to SQL is able to make use of not just embedded SQL but also stored procedures and walks the reader through the steps necessary in order to make effective use of LINQ and stored procedures.
While the style of writing in the book was a little hard to follow, the technical content of the book appeared to be both accurate and thorough, taking the most in-depth look at LINQ to XML and then the Standard Query operators.Great reference for LINQ operators but just a so-so tutorial,
January 28, 2008 Although adequate for introductory material, this is not a book that I would likely recommend to someone else to read to get up to speed on LINQ when compared to other LINQ books available. I understand the difficulty in making technical documentation fun to read, but the book reads a bit like a technical manual that comes with your computer. Although it may be superficial to state, Kumar tries to lighten it up by using "Icecream" objects throughout the book; the attempt comes off as a bit hokey, like an old cliche, when compared to the mood of the remainder of the book. Although he gets his instructions across, I must say that they're often difficult to infer exactly what he's trying to say. I found myself having to reread many paragraphs over again to fully understand the instruction that he was attempting to convey.
As the previous review stated, the last chapter, which gives a concise and complete reference of every LINQ operator, makes the purchase worth having on your shelf and is a chapter I will surely be references a number of times in the future.Great book for getting a quick start at LINQ,
January 03, 2008 Chapter 1 starts off with an brief introduction to LINQ, the rest of the chapter goes into detail of the new .NET 3.5 framework features created to enable LINQ. The next few chapters cover LINQ to ... Objects, XML, SQL, and XSD. Chapter 6 describes how to use LINQ within you ADO.NET DataSets.
Chapter 7, which is worth the purchase price of the book covers all of the new Operators that are available to LINQ queries. This makes the book worthy of purchasing a desktop reference guide for those just getting up to speed on LINQ.
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