In Chapter 20, Chapter 20, you saw how to use LINQ to examine the contents of enumerable collections held in memory. LINQ provides query expressions, which use SQL-like syntax for performing queries and generating a result set that you can then step through. It should come as no surprise that you can use an extended form of LINQ, called DLINQ, for querying and manipulating the contents of a database. DLINQ is built on top of ADO.NET. DLINQ provides a high level of abstraction, removing the need for you to worry about the details of constructing an ADO.NET Command object, iterating through a result set returned by a DataReader object, or fetching data column by column by using the various GetXXX methods.
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