An Extensive Examination of LINQ: Extension Methods, Implicitly Typed Variables, and Object Initializers

One of the more substantive additions to the .NET Framework 3.5 and C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9 languages was LINQ, a set of classes along with language enhancements that allow developers to use a common library and SQL-like query syntax to work with common data stores. The initial article in this series, An Introduction to LINQ, provided an overview of LINQ and its core pieces: the standard query operators, the language...Full Article.