Another great feature of Visual Basic is the ability to specify
Standard Query Language (SQL) such as constructs in the
course of declaring a variable. With LINQ, the language inte-
grated query framework for .NET, Microsoft intentionally
utilized something close to general SQL so that programmers
with existing SQL knowledge could quickly get up to speed
with the query syntax.
Visual Basic also utilizes IEnumerable in the SQL con-
struct even though the language uses implicit typing.
IEnumerable allows you to loop directly against arrays and
objects and access their properties directly. The compiler
translates the query expression into calls to the ...
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