13.7. The Internal Representation of LINQ Query Statements

At this point, you have been introduced to the process of building query expressions using various C# query operators (such as from, in, where, orderby, and select). Also, you discovered that some functionality of the LINQ to Objects API can only be accessed when calling extension methods of the Enumerable class. The truth of the matter, however, is that when compiled, the C# compiler actually translates all C# LINQ operators into calls on methods of the Enumerable class. In fact, if you were really a glutton for punishment, you could build all of your LINQ statements using nothing but the underlying object model.

A great many of the methods of Enumerable have been prototyped to take ...

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