LINQ QUICKLY: A PRACTICAL GUIDE O PROGRAMMING LANG.INTEGRATED QUERY W/C# 0th Edition  (Others, Paperback, S. A. M. Smith Gary D. Brown)

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.
FeaturesOverview of new features for LINQ in .NET 3.0 -- partial methods, expressions, anonymous types, initializers, and implicitly typed local variables
Accessing in-memory data structures using LINQ -- lists, arrays, and dictionaries
Directly querying the collections and filtering the required values without using powerful filtering, ordering, and grouping capabilities
Creating and manipulating XML data through .NET using XElement and XAttribute
Creating and navigating XML trees using Functional Construction
Importing and exporting data from dictionaries, databases, objects, and CSV files
Creating and manipulating the database objects using the DataContext object
Working with stored procedures, user-defined functions, handling concurrency conflicts, and transactions during database updates
Working with .NET framework data providers and DataSets
Using DataSet for easier and faster querying of cached data
Working with typed and un-typed XML trees using XSD
Examining standard query operators provided by LINQ and using them to query data sources
Implementing your own standard query operators
Building an ASP.NET web applicationWho This Book is Written For
This book is for .NET developers who want to find out exactly what LINQ is, what it can do for them, and how to program with LINQ.
This book presumes a sound knowledge of XML, ADO.NET, and .NET data access -- No knowledge of LINQ is presumed.
About the Author
N. Satheesh Kumar has Bachelor\'s Degree in Computer Science Engineering and has around eleven years of experience in software development life cycle, 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 designing and developing application software using Microsoft products for a top Multinational Company in India and then spent 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.



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