LINQ in Action

LINQ in Action

is a fast-paced, comprehensive tutorial for professional developers

who want to use LINQ. This book explores what can be done with LINQ,

shows you how it works in an application, and addresses the emerging best

practices. It presents the general purpose query facilities offered by LINQ in the

upcoming C# 3.0 and VB 9.0 languages. A running example introduces basic

LINQ concepts. Readers then learn to query unstructured data using LINQ to

XML and relational data with LINQ to SQL. Finally, the book shows how to

extend LINQ for custom applications. The book is very practical, anchoring

each new idea with running code.