Product Description

Ready to take advantage of LINQ with C# 3.0? This guide has the detail you need to grasp Microsoft's new querying technology, and concise explanations to help you learn it quickly. And once you begin to apply LINQ, the book serves as an on-the-job reference when you need immediate reminders.

All the examples in the LINQ Pocket Reference are preloaded into LINQPad, the highly praised utility that lets you work with LINQ interactively. Created by the authors and free to download, LINQPad will not only help you learn LINQ, it will have you thinking in LINQ.

This reference explains:

• LINQ's key concepts, such as deferred execution, iterator chaining, and type inference in lambda expressions
• The differences between local and interpreted queries
• C# 3.0's query syntax in detail-including multiple generators, joining, grouping, query continuations, and more
• Query syntax versus lambda syntax, and mixed syntax queries
• Composition and projection strategies for complex queries
• All of LINQ's 40-plus query operators
• How to write efficient LINQ to SQL queries
• How to build expression trees from scratch
• All of LINQ to XML's types and their advanced use

LINQ promises to be the locus of a thriving ecosystem for many years to come. This small book gives you a huge head start.

"The authors built a tool (LINQPad) that lets you experiment with LINQ interactively in a way that the designers of LINQ themselves don't support, and the tool has all kinds of wonderful features that LINQ, SQL and Regular Expression programmers alike will want to use regularly long after they've read the book." -Chris Sells, Connected Systems Program Manager, Microsoft

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #59200 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 161 pages

About the Author
Joseph Albahari is a core C# design architect at Egton Medical Information Systems, the largest primary healthcare software supplier in the UK. He has been developing large-scale enterprise applications on .NET and other platforms for more than 15 years, working in medical, telecommunication and education industries. Joseph specializes in writing custom components and controls, and has designed application component frameworks for three companies.

Ben Albahari is currently involved in the bioinformatics business. He was a Program Manager at Microsoft for 5 years, where he worked on several projects, including the .NET Compact Framework and ADO.NET.

He was the cofounder of Genamics, a provider of tools for C# and J++ programmers, as well as software for DNA and protein sequence analysis. He is a co-author of C# Essentials, the first C# book from O'Reilly, and of previous editions of C# in a Nutshell.

Customer Reviews

A superb reference for LINQ.
This book is just wat the title says, a refernce text. It provides all the detail you need to ensure you can get the most out of LINQ without having to remember all the syntax. The book covers all aspects of LINQ with c#, in a clear and consise manner. The exaple code provided in this book also mirror the examples provided in the chapters on LINQ in C#3.0 in a nutshell, which helps put the subject matterin context if you are learning LINQ; or need to brush up on your understanding.

This book like most of it's companions in the O'Reilly Pocket reference range, is a superb compact refernce for the developer. The size of this book (smaller than a DVD Case), makes it ideal to keep hand on your desk for quick and easy access. It should be part of every c# developers bookshelf.

Great little Quick Reference book - just what you need.
now that you are a linq user that is a handy quick ref guide to get into the solution you need. Its Lambda expressions are good if you are also a user of NHibernate. This book will be of immediate use to people using LINQ SQL where the sql goes back to a traditional architecture; that is doing what you have always done but the LINQ way, thats upto page 50. From page 113 onwards this is all that you can do with XML and X-DOM. Linq makes RSS feeds a dream. The examples are in C# with pictures to show you want is happening.
This is not a theory book, but quick ref for any 3.5 C# developer.

I got one for each of my developers!