LINQ Programming

Take your LINQ programming skills to the top tier

Resolve data format impedance mismatch with guidance from a C# expert and Microsoft MVP. LINQ Programming details cutting-edge techniques to effectively assimilate XML, SQL, ADO.NET, and unstructured data sources. Build powerful LINQ queries, handle hierarchical and relational data, use lambdas and expression trees, and develop multi-threaded applications. Get proven strategies for handling conflicts and exceptions and creating custom extension methods. Additionally, you'll learn how to create your own LINQ provider through a working example, LINQ to Twitter.

• Filter, order, and group code using LINQ to Objects
• Query relational and unstructured data with LINQ to SQL and LINQ to XML
• Work with ADO.NET through LINQ to DataSet
• Deploy object-oriented programming techniques and LINQ to Entities
• Read, manipulate, and create C#-based XML documents
• Generate DBML and external mapping files with SqlMetal
• Create custom lambdas, expressions, providers, and extensions
• Support concurrent processing and multi-threading using PLINQ
• Build a custom LINQ provider for working with any data source

"A superior guide to a new world of programming. This text is the best laid out, and the most thoughtful and thorough examination of this subject that I have yet seen. ...An excellent guide to that wondrous new world written by an expert working at the peak of his powers." —From the foreword by Charlie Calvert, C# Community Program Manager, Microsoft

Joe Mayo, Microsoft MVP, is an author and instructor who specializes in Microsoft .NET software technology. He owns Mayo Software Training and operates the C# Station website.

Joe Mayo, Microsoft MVP, is an author and instructor who specializes in Microsoft .NET software technology. He owns Mayo Software Training and operates the C# Station website.