Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2010 Developer’s Handbook

Chapter 25. LINQ to Objects

In this chapter:
Getting Started with LINQ to Objects
Anatomy of a LINQ Query
LINQ Query Performance
Concatenating LINQ Queries and Delayed Execution
Combining Multiple Collections
Grouping Collections
Aggregate Functions

Getting Started with LINQ to Objects

After reading Chapter 24, you should be familiar with the basic functionality of LINQ to Objects. In fact, you might be wondering what else there is to say about it. As far as the internal workings of LINQ, not much more, really; however, there is a lot more to learn about the effect of LINQ to Objects on your daily work.

After all, you don’t primarily use LINQ to Objects to recreate a database containing business objects in your .NET application’s Managed Heap—even ...