Resources

LINQ in Action resources

LINQ in Action official site and blog http://LinqInAction.net

Manning’s home page for LINQ in Action http://www.manning.com/marguerie

Microsoft resources

LINQ official web site http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa904594.aspx

MSDN Library LINQ documentation http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397926(VS.90).aspx

101 LINQ samples C#: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/aa336746.aspx VB.NET: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/bb688088.aspx Visual Studio 2008 samples: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/bb330936.aspx

“LINQ to SQL: .NET Language-Integrated Query for Relational Data.” By Dinesh Kulkarni, Luca Bolognese, Matt Warren, Anders Hejlsberg, Kit George. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb425822.aspx

C# 3.0 language specification http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/8/8/388e7205-bc10-4226-b2a8-75351c669b09/csharp%20language%20specification.doc Also at <Program Files>Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0VC#Specifications1033 if you have Visual Studio installed

MSDN C# Developer Center http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/

Visual Basic 9.0 language specification http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=39de1dd0-f775-40bf-a191-09f5a95ef500&displaylang=en

MSDN Visual Basic Developer Center http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/

.NET 3.5 Runtime bootstrapper http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7755937

Scott Guthrie http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/tags/LINQ/default.aspx

Matt Warren LINQ (first in a series): http://blogs.msdn.com/mattwar/archive/tags/LINQ/default.aspx IQueryable: http://blogs.msdn.com/mattwar/archive/2007/07/30/linq-building-an-iqueryable-provider-part-i.aspx

Rico Mariani LINQ to SQL performance posts: http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2007/06/22/dlinq-linq-to-sql-performance-part-1.aspx

LINQ to SQL Debug Visualizer http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/07/31/linq-to-sql-debug-visualizer.aspx

ADO.NET 3.5 Development Center (covers the ADO.NET Entity Framework) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/data/aa937723.aspx

“Parallel LINQ: Running Queries On Multi-Core Processors.” By Joe Duffy and Ed Essey. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/10/PLINQ/

DryadLINQ web site http://research.microsoft.com/research/sv/DryadLINQ/

Community resources

Official LINQ forum http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=123&SiteID=1

Hooked on LINQ http://www.hookedonlinq.com

Charlie Calvert’s links to LINQ wiki http://blogs.msdn.com/charlie/archive/2006/10/05/Links-to-LINQ.aspx

Blogs

Roger Jennings LINQ: http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/search/label/LINQ LINQ to SQL: http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/search/label/DLinq C# 3.0: http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/search/label/C%23%203.0 VB 9.0: http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/search/label/VB%209.0

David Hayden LINQ: http://davidhayden.com/blog/dave/category/52.aspx LINQ to SQL: http://davidhayden.com/blog/dave/category/59.aspx C# 3.0: http://davidhayden.com/blog/dave/category/58.aspx

Bart de Smet LINQ: http://community.bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/tags/LINQ/default.aspx C# 3.0: http://community.bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/tags/C_2300_+3.0/default.aspx VB 9.0: http://community.bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/tags/VB+9.0/default.aspx

Others

“The entity-relationship model—toward a unified view of data.” By Peter Chen. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=320440

Tomas Petricek’s articles about LINQ http://tomasp.net/blog/linq-expand.aspx http://tomasp.net/articles/linq-expand-update.aspx http://tomasp.net/blog/dynamic-linq-queries.aspx http://tomasp.net/articles/clinq-project.aspx http://tomasp.net/articles/dynamic-flinq.aspx

PredicateBuilder, dynamically building LINQ expression predicates http://www.albahari.com/expressions/

LINQPad, a LINQ tool that you can use to quickly try out LINQ expressions. http://www.albahari.com/linqpad.html

Community-driven LINQ providers See the resources at the end of chapter 13.