LINQ Programming

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Review

This book will be useful for newbies as well as the highly experienced in understanding and applying LINQ to optimize access to various data sources. The material is very useful for anyone interested in learning LINQ or, more generally, anyone who wants to create efficient queries right from their high level language.

Joe Mayo provides expert tutorial services in this treatment of LINQ.  He starts off with a good functional description of LINQ and then moves into how LINQ applies in the context of various data sources. He wraps it up with a discussion of using LINQ in various application contexts.

Throughout the book, the author divulges each new topic with easy to understand concepts. Mayo builds upon the concept with high-level, as well as low-level, code examples, which are interesting and useful for experienced practitioners.  The style of writing is very comfortable; similar to that of a friend helping us understand things we want to know.

The book provides simple examples using .NET, C#, SQL, XML, IL, then moves on to more complex examples. This gives readers an excellent way to understand both the concept and how to use it from a friendly, experienced perspective.

The author also has discussion points where he examines the efficiency and value of using LINQ to interface with the various data sources.  In a nutshell, this book has it all.