Brief Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About This Book

1. Getting started

Chapter 1. Introducing LINQ

Chapter 2. C# and VB.NET language enhancements

Chapter 3. LINQ building blocks

2. Querying objects in memory

Chapter 4. Getting familiar with LINQ to Objects

Chapter 5. Beyond basic in-memory queries

3. Querying relational data

Chapter 6. Getting started with LINQ to SQL

Chapter 7. Peeking under the covers of LINQ to SQL

Chapter 8. Advanced LINQ to SQL features

4. Manipulating XML

Chapter 9. Introducing LINQ to XML

Chapter 10. Query and transform XML with LINQ to XML

Chapter 11. Common LINQ to XML scenarios

5. LINQing it all together

Chapter 12. Extending LINQ

Chapter 13. LINQ in every layer

Appendix The standard query operators

Appendix Resources

Appendix LINQ in Action

Index

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Listings