Author(s): Fabrice Marguerie, Steve Eichert and Jim Wooley

LINQ in Action is a fast-paced, comprehensive tutorial for professional developers.
This book explores what can be done with LINQ, shows 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.NET 9.0 languages. A running
example introduces basic LINQ concepts. You'll then learn to query unstructured data
using LINQ to XML and relational data with LINQ to SQL. Finally, you'll see how to
extend LINQ for custom applications.

LINQ in Action will guide you along as you explore this new world of lambda expressions,
query operators, and expression trees. As well, you'll explore the new features of C# 3.0,
VB.NET 9.0. The book is very practical, anchoring each new idea with running code. Whether
you want to use LINQ to query objects, XML documents, or relational databases, you will
find all the information you need to get started

But LINQ in Action does not stop at the basic code. This book also shows you how LINQ can
be used for advanced processing of data, including coverage of LINQ's extensibility, which
allows querying more data sources than those supported by default. All code samples are
built on a concrete business case. The running example, LinqBooks, is a personal book
cataloging system that shows you how to create LINQ applications with Visual Studio 2008.

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