List of Tables

Chapter 1. Introducing LINQ

Table 1.1. LINQ’s design goals and the motivations behind them

Table 1.2. Comparing LINQ to XML with the XML DOM to show how LINQ to XML is a better value proposition

Chapter 3. LINQ building blocks

Table 3.1. The standard query operators grouped in families

Table 3.2. Mapping of standard query operators to query expression keywords by language

Table 3.3. Content of the assemblies provided by .NET 3.5 that are useful for LINQ

Chapter 4. Getting familiar with LINQ to Objects

Table 4.1. The standard query operators grouped in families

Chapter 5. Beyond basic in-memory queries

Table 5.1. Time measured for each MaxElement option

Table 5.2. Time measured for each search option executed 50 times using a condition on an int

Table 5.3. Time measured for each search option executed 50 times using a condition on a string

Chapter 7. Peeking under the covers of LINQ to SQL

Table 7.1. Custom attributes exposed by System.Data.Linq.Mapping for mapping databases to objects

Table 7.2. Listing of parameters used by the Column attribute

Table 7.3. Listing of parameters used by the Association attribute

Table 7.4. State of values returned by queries before and after changes

Table 7.5. Values returned before and after submitting changes from each DataContext

Chapter 9. Introducing LINQ to XML

Table 9.1. Complementary LINQ to XML classes

Chapter 10. Query and transform XML with LINQ to XML

Table 10.1. Standard query operators and their query expression equivalents

Chapter 11. Common LINQ to XML scenarios

Table 11.1. Common Amazon e-commerce web service operation request parameters

Table 11.2. Mapping of XML to database for Book attributes