LINQ in Action

List of Figures

Chapter 1. Introducing LINQ

Figure 1.1. LINQ building blocks, LINQ providers, and data sources that can be queried using LINQ

Figure 1.2. LINQ as language extensions and as a gateway to several data sources

Figure 1.3. How simple objects can be mapped to a database model. The mapping is not trivial due to the differences between the object-oriented and the relational paradigms.

Figure 1.4. .NET applications and data sources are different worlds. The concepts used in object-oriented programming are different from the concepts used with relational databases and XML.

Chapter 2. C# and VB.NET language enhancements

Figure 2.1. Structure of a lambda expression in C#

Figure 2.2. Structure of a lambda expression in VB.NET

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