To write code, we can choose from a variety of programming languages. The selected language for an application may depend on the business context, on developer preferences, on the development team’s skills, on the operating system or on the company’s policy. Whatever the language you end up with, at some point you will have to deal with data. This data can be in files on the disk, tables in a database, XML documents coming from the Web, and very often you have to deal with a combination of all of these. Ultimately, managing data is a requirement for every software project you’ll work on | IN ACTION Fabrice Marguerie Steve Eichert Jim Wooley 11 MANNIHi Please post comments or corrections to the Author Online forum at http forumID 302 MEAP Edition Manning Early Access Program Copyright 2007 Manning Publications For more information on this and other Manning titles go to Please post comments or corrections to the Author Online forum at http forumID 302 Contents Part I - Getting started 1. Introducing LINQ 2. C and language enhancements 3. LINQ building blocks - Part II - Querying objects in memory 4. Getting familiar with LINQ to Objects 5. Working with LINQ and DataSets 6. Beyond basic in-memory queries Part III - Manipulating XML 7. Introducing LINQ to XML 8. Querying and transforming XML 9. Common LINQ to XML scenarios Part IV - Mapping objects to relational databases 10. Getting started with LINQ to SQL 11. Retrieving objects efficiently 12. Advanced LINQ to SQL features Part V - LINQing it all together 13. Extending LINQ 14. LINQ in every layer Appendices Appendix A. The standard query operators Appendix B. Quick references for VB and C features Features Appendix C. References Appendix D. Resources Please post comments or corrections to the Author Online forum at http forumID .
