Programming Microsoft LINQ in .NET Framework 4

Description

Dig into LINQ -- and transform the way you work with data.

With LINQ, you can query data from a variety of sources -- including databases, objects, and XML files -- directly from Microsoft Visual Basic or C#. Guided by data-access experts who've worked in depth with LINQ and the Microsoft development teams, you'll learn how .NET Framework 4 implements LINQ, and how to exploit it. Clear examples show you how to deliver your own data-access solutions faster and with leaner code.

Discover how to:

• Use LINQ to query databases, object collections, arrays, XML, Microsoft Excel files, and other sources
• Apply LINQ best practices to build data-enabled .NET applications and services
• Manipulate data in a relational database with ADO.NET Entity Framework or LINQ to SQL
• Read, write, and manage XML content more efficiently with LINQ to XML
• Extend LINQ to support additional data sources by creating custom operators and providers
• Examine other implementations, such as LINQ to SharePoint
• Use LINQ within the data, business, and service layers of a distributed application
• Get code samples on the Web

Sample Content

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I: LINQ Foundations
  • Chapter 1: LINQ Introduction
  • Chapter 2: LINQ Syntax Fundamentals
  • Chapter 3: Linq to Objects
• Part II: LINQ to Relational
  • Chapter 4: Choosing Between LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities
  • Chapter 5: LINQ to SQL: Querying Data
  • Chapter 6: LINQ to SQL: Managing Data
  • Chapter 7: LINQ to SQL: Modeling Data and Tools
  • Chapter 8: LINQ to Entities: Modeling Data with Entity Framework
  • Chapter 9: LINQ to Entities: Querying Data
  • Chapter 10: LINQ to Entities: Managing Data
  • Chapter 11: LINQ to DataSet
• Part III: LINQ to XML
  • Chapter 12: LINQ to XML: Managing the XML Infoset
  • Chapter 13: LINQ to XML: Querying Nodes
• Part IV: Advanced LINQ
  • Chapter 14: Inside Expression Trees
  • Chapter 15: Extending LINQ
  • Chapter 16: Parallelism and Asynchronous Processing
  • Chapter 17: Other LINQ Implementations
• Part V: Applied LINQ
  • Chapter 18: LINQ in a Multitier Solution
  • Chapter 19: LINQ Data Binding

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