12Language Integrated Query
LINQ OVERVIEW
LINQ (Language Integrated Query) integrates query syntax inside the C# programming language, making it possible to access different data sources with the same syntax. LINQ accomplishes this by offering an abstraction layer.
This chapter describes the core principles of LINQ and the language extensions for C# that make the C# LINQ Query possible.
This chapter starts with a simple LINQ query before diving into the full potential of LINQ. The C# language offers integrated query language that is converted to method calls. This section shows you how the conversion looks so you can use all the possibilities of LINQ.
Lists and Entities
The LINQ queries in this chapter ...
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