Querying in Memory Objects
LINQ to Object’s purpose is querying in-memory collections in a strongly typed fashion using recently added keywords that recall SQL instructions syntax and that are now integrated in the Visual Basic language. This enables the compiler to manage your actions at compile time. Before querying data, you need a data source. For example, imagine you have the following Product class that represents some food products of your company:
Class Product Property ProductID As Integer Property ProductName As String Property UnitPrice As Decimal Property UnitsInStock As Integer Property Discontinued As BooleanEnd Class
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