Chapter 3. Basic Data Manipulation Techniques
After completing this chapter, you’ll be able to:
Describe how Language Integrated Query (LINQ) makes application development easy
Create an application that uses LINQ to work with information in a List control
Write code that relies on LINQ
Test an application that uses LINQ
Trace through the application to see how it works
Extend the first application to provide additional functionality
THE PURPOSE OF MOST APPLICATIONS is to manipulate some sort of data. Manipulation can take many forms—everything from displaying the data in a certain form to changing it. Whenever you look at a user interface, it displays some type of data. Even a simple message box (one of those tiny dialog boxes that Windows seems to ...
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