Chapter 2. Getting Started
Many developers prefer to use a new technology rather than simply read about it. Practical experience provides a foundation on which to construct the theoretical understanding needed when mastering a new skill.
This chapter helps you understand LINQ by showing several simple programs that illustrate
• LINQ to Objects
• LINQ to SQL
• LINQ to XML
These examples demonstrate three themes that recur frequently in this book:
• The usefulness of query expressions
• The significance of deferred execution
• The primacy of IEnumerable<T>
The examples shown in this chapter also illustrate how to write query expressions, the key syntactic construct used by LINQ developers to query a data source. When executing even these simple ...
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