Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Introducing Standard Query Operators

Querying objects with LINQ (as much as Xml documents and ADO.NET models) is accomplished via the standard query operators that are a set of Visual Basic keywords allowing performing both simple and complex tasks within LINQ queries. This chapter covers standard query operators illustrating their purpose. For this, remember that this topic is important because you need operators in other LINQ providers as well. You can also notice that standard query operator generally have extension methods counterparts that you can use as well.

Coding Tips

The following examples consistently use local type inference and array literals. They dramatically speed up writing LINQ queries, and therefore using such a feature ...