23.5. Summary

In this chapter you have been introduced to Language Integrated Queries (LINQ), a significant step toward a common programming model for data access. You can see that LINQ statements help to make your code more readable, because you don't have to code all the details of how the data should be iterated, the conditional statements for selecting objects, or the code for building the results set.

The next two chapters go through LINQ to XML, LINQ to SQL, and LINQ to Entities. Although the query structure remains the same, there are unique features of each of these providers that make them relevant for particular scenarios.