LINQ FOR DUMMIES

Ifyou’veaskedyourself'Whycan’tIdevelopdatabaseandXMLqueriesinalanguageIalreadyknow?',thenLanguageINtegratedQuery,orLINQ,isforyou.LINQForDummiesintroducesyoutoLINQandthe.NETFrameworktechnologies,soyoucanuseLINQtoqueryanyobject,anydataset,anykindofXML,andSQLServer—noquestionsasked.Thisplain-EnglishguidegivesyouathoroughoverviewofLINQ,fromunderstandingthetasksitperformstomakingLINQworkwithbothVisualBasicandVisualStudio2005.ItexplainsthefourLINQprovidersinthe.NETFramework,theeasiestwaystogoaboutaccessingdata,andhowtowritemoreefficientapplicationswithlesscodeusingLINQ.There’salsoclearguidanceoncombiningthird-partyproviderswithLINQtocreateevenmorepowerfulapps.Withthissingle,comprehensiveguide,you’lldiscoverhowto:-UseonequerylanguagewithallMicrosoftlanguages-Examine.NETlanguageextensionsandworkwithextensionmethods,partialmethods,lambdaexpressions,andqueryexpressions-LINQtoDataSetoperators,SQLserveroperations,XMLAPI,orActiveDirectory-Dealwithdatabases—downloadandinstalltheNorthwinddatabase,generateNorthwindentityclasses,andcreatetheNorthwindXMLmappingfile-Createthepartialclassexample,thepartialmethodexample,andthedatabasemodificationexample-UseobjectswithLINQ-QuerydatabasesinVisualBasicandC#Asanaddedbonus,youcanvisitthecompanionWebsiteforLINQexamplesinC#andVisualBasic.WithLINQForDummies,you’lllinkupwithLINQinnotimeandseehowyoucanqueryalmostanything!AuthorBiography:JohnPaulMuellerhaswrittenmorethan300articlesand80books,mostrecentlyMasteringWindowsVistaBusinesswithMarkMinasi.TheauthorofRibbonXForDummies,hehascoveredeverythingfromprogrammingtooperatingsystemstohomesecurityandaccessibility.