Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008

by Joseph C. Rattz Jr.

LINQ (Language INtegrated Query) is a new addition to the .NET Framework that Microsoft will be releasing alongside the next version of Visual Studio ("Orcas") in mid-2007. Foundations of LINQ in C# is the first book on the subject to provide a complete overview of this important emerging technology. In a fast-paced 250 pages readers are taken through all of LINQ’s important features and shown how the technology can be put to practical use quickly and simply. By reading this book you will be able to get ahead of the game and be ready when the new technology breaks.

Genres: Programming, Software

600 pages, Paperback

First published November 19, 2007

Reviews

[James Messinger · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was like reading straight from MSDN. Just a bunch of dry method signatures and simple examples. It makes for a good reference book, I guess, but isn't that why we have MSDN? I expect a book to provide more information, context, guidelines, and best practices.

Also, the author acknowledges in the first chapter that most developers prefer the LINQ query syntax rather than the standard C# dot notation, yet he then goes on to use the dot notation exclusively throughout the book. Thus, the developer is left to figure out how to translate the book's code samples into the preferred query syntax.

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