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LINQ Quickly

By : N Satheesh Kumar
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LINQ Quickly

By: N Satheesh Kumar

Overview of this book

<p>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. <br /><br />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<br />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.<br />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&lt;T&gt;.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
LINQ Quickly
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Building an ASP.NET Application
LINQ with Outlook

About the Author

N Satheesh Kumar has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science Engineering and has around eleven years of experience in software development lifecycle, project and program management. He started his career developing software applications using Borland software products in a company based in India, and then moved to the United Arab Emirates where he continued developing custom application software using Borland Delphi, and customizing Great Plain Dynamics (now known as Microsoft Dynamics) for an automobile company. He moved back to India and spent three years in design and developing application software using Microsoft products for a top multi national company, and then spent a couple of years in project management and program management activities. Now he works as a Technical Architect for a top retail company based in the United States. He works with the latest Microsoft technologies and has published many articles on LINQ and other features of .NET.