Professional LINQ by Scott Klein

My 2 centsby Jeff_B

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July 13, 2009: What I liked about this book is how Scott talks about the Features of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework that will help developers like me have a better understanding of LINQ. First 4 chapters of the book is more of an introduction then goes into the fundamentals. The LINQ to XML coverage is excellent. He talks about creating, traversing, manipulating. For me I thought that was great because it saved me a lot of headaches of trying to do things with XML the old fashion way.

Scott also talks about LINQ to SQL - In my opinion majority of the book is about LINQ to SQL. In this subject he talks about different techniques that you can do with LINQ to SQL like for example LINQ to SQL Queries.

What I noticed is that he briefly metions about LINQ to Objects. LINQ to Objects allows .NET developers to write "queries" over collections of objects. Traditionally, working with collections of objects meant writing a lot of looping code using for loops or foreach loops to iterate through a list carrying out filtering using if statements, and some action like keeping a running sum of a total property. LINQ frees you from having to write looping code; it allows you to write queries that filter a list or calculate aggregate functions on elements in a collection as a set.

Overall, I think this book is a good reference for developers that want to get into LINQ to XML or LINQ to SQL.