The C# Programmer’s Study Guide (MCSD): Exam: 70-483

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Ali Asad and Hamza Ali, The C# Programmer’s Study Guide (MCSD), 10.1007/978-1-4842-2860-9_6

6. Deep Dive into LINQ

Ali Asad¹  and Hamza Ali¹

(1)Sialkot, Pakistan

LINQ is a feature of C# introduced in .NET 3.5. It lets you work with different types of data and provides an easy and powerful way to write and maintain queries.

In this chapter, we will meet the following objectives:

1. Understand LINQ

2. Understand LINQ Operators

3. Understand LINQ Syntaxes

4. Working with LINQ Queries

5. Working with LINQ to XML

Introduction to LINQ

LINQ (Language Integrated Query ) is a way to query different types of data sources that support IEnumerable<T> or IQueryable<T>. It offers an easy and elegant way to access or manipulate data from a database object, ...