| Sample chapter: “Introducing LINQ,” from LINQ in Action, by Fabrice Marquerie, Steve Eichert, and Jim Wooley (January 2008). Discusses what LINQ is, a LINQ overview, LINQ as a toolset, LINQ as language extensions, why we need LINQ, common problems, addressing a paradigm mismatch, object-relational mapping, object-XML mapping, design goals and origins of LINQ, the goals of the LINQ Project, history of LINQ, ObjectSpaces, XQuery implementation, querying collections in memory, LINQ to objects, querying XML documents, why we need LINQ to XML, querying relational databases, what make LINQ to SQL special, and the DataContext. |