Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Summary

Although Microsoft is making lots of investments in much more modern technologies such as ADO.NET Entity Framework, DataSets are a data source that you can find in tons of applications. Because of this, the .NET Framework provides the LINQ to DataSets provider to enable the querying of DataSets via the LINQ syntax. Datasets are particular; therefore, there are specific extension methods that you can use versus DataSets, such as CopyToDataTable that generates a new DataTable from a LINQ query and Field that allows getting strongly typed information from columns. In this chapter you got an overview of how LINQ works over DataSets, and how you can use retrieved information in your applications.