November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
12h 3m
English
In Hour 10, “Working with Arrays and Collections,” you learned how applications could work with data stored in collections. Applications also need to work with data stored in other data sources, such as SQL databases or XML files, or even accessed through a web service. Traditionally, queries against these different data sources required different syntax and performed no type checking at compile time.
For example, consider a collection of customers. How would you search that collection for all customers with a specific job title? Using what you have learned so far, ...