LINQ: The Future of Data Access in C# 3.0

Table of contents

1. LINQ: The Future of Data Access in C# 3.0
2. A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
3. Learn LINQ and the C# 3.0 Features That Support It
4. A Quick Introduction to LINQ
5. The LINQ Architecture
6. Supporting LINQ in C# 3.0
   1. Lambda Expressions
   2. Type Inference
   3. Anonymous Types and Object Initializers
   4. Query Expressions
   5. Extension Methods
   6. Lazy Evaluation
7. Applying LINQ
   1. LINQ to DataSets
   2. LINQ to SQL
   3. Create, Read, Update, and Delete with LINQ
   4. LINQ to XML
   5. LINQ to IEnumerable
8. Standard LINQ Query Operators
   1. 1. Aggregate
      2. All
      3. Any
      4. Average
      5. Cast
      6. Concat
      7. Contains
      8. Count
      9. DefaultIfEmpty
      10. Distinct
      11. ElementAt
      12. ElementAtOrDefault
      13. Empty
      14. EqualAll
      15. Except
      16. First
      17. FirstOrDefault
      18. Fold
      19. GroupBy
      20. GroupJoin
      21. Intersect
      22. Join
      23. Last
      24. LastOrDefault
      25. LongCount
      26. Max
      27. Min
      28. OfType
      29. OrderBy
      30. OrderByDescending
      31. Range
      32. Repeat
      33. Reverse
      34. Select
      35. SelectMany
      36. Single
      37. SingleOrDefault
      38. Skip
      39. SkipWhile
      40. Sum
      41. Take
      42. TakeWhile
      43. ThenBy
      44. ThenByDescending
      45. ToArray
      46. ToDictionary
      47. ToList
      48. ToLookup
      49. ToSequence
      50. Union
      51. Where
9. Extending LINQ
10. For Further Information
11. Acknowledgements
12. About the Author
13. Copyright