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LINQ to Objects (and Everything)

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The most hyped new feature in Visual Studio 2008 is LINQ, which stands for Language INtegrated Queries. It's awesome, and you'll be using it to talk to SQL, Objects and everything in between. Specifically to LINQ to Objects, this mechanism has the ability to query anything that implements IEnumerable<T>, which is a nice feature because it allows for creating complex logic to search collections by.

Blogs/Articles

LINQ to Objects - 5 minute overview as well as the main page on LINQ to Objects. This site has a wealth of good information about LINQ and it's also organized in wiki format so bonus points to them.
Introduction to LINQ - Excellent multipart series beginning with LINQ to objects.
Good beginner's commentary from David Seruyange on LINQ
Fabrice Marguerie's Blog - The author of LINQ In Action and all around smart guy.
How LINQ to objects queries work - Excellent explanation using breakpoints for context.
Taking LINQ to objects to extremes - Want your brain to explode? Check out this post from LukeH. This example definitely shows how far you could take LINQ.
LINQ in Action - The official blog of the book and a great source for, ahem, source.

Have fun!

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Revision #2 Sat, Oct 11, 2008 8:23 AM by	LINQ to XML It seems we can LINQ to everything these days. Here's some resources that will get you started using LINQ with XML. Introduction .NET Language-Integrated Query for XML Data- This MSDN introduction is 44 pages in fairly easy to read detail on LINQ to XML
Revision #3 Sat, Oct 11, 2008 8:24 AM by	LINQ From MSDN: "The LINQ Project is a codename for a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that encompass language-integrated query, set, and transform operations. It extends C# and Visual Basic with native language syntax for queries and provides class
Revision #3 Mon, Feb 4, 2008 8:00 AM by	LINQ to SQL Start with listening to Anders talk about LINQ in Anders Hejlsberg on LINQ and Functional Programming this video and reading the MSDN Introduction to LINQ. If that's too long, perhaps the 5 Minute Intro is more your speed. There's also a good Channel

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Sat, Oct 11, 2008 8:23 AM by

LINQ to XML

It seems we can LINQ to everything these days. Here's some resources that will get you started using LINQ with XML. Introduction .NET Language-Integrated Query for XML Data- This MSDN introduction is 44 pages in fairly easy to read detail on LINQ to XML

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Sat, Oct 11, 2008 8:24 AM by

LINQ

From MSDN: "The LINQ Project is a codename for a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that encompass language-integrated query, set, and transform operations. It extends C# and Visual Basic with native language syntax for queries and provides class

Revision #3
Mon, Feb 4, 2008 8:00 AM by

LINQ to SQL

Start with listening to Anders talk about LINQ in Anders Hejlsberg on LINQ and Functional Programming this video and reading the MSDN Introduction to LINQ. If that's too long, perhaps the 5 Minute Intro is more your speed. There's also a good Channel