9. Introduction to LINQ and the List Collection
Objectives
In this chapter you’ll learn:
• Basic LINQ concepts.
• How to query an array using LINQ.
• Basic .NET collections concepts.
• How to create and use a generic List collection.
• How to query a generic List collection using LINQ.
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it—all my life.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated ...
—Paul Valéry
You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.
—Walt Whitman
The portraitist can select one tiny aspect of everything shown at a moment to incorporate into the final painting.
—Robert Nozick
List, list, O, list!
—William Shakespeare
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