So in my LINQ code, rather than using an explicit Join to attach the Customer to the Orders table, I can query the Orders collection and retrieve the Customer information through the Orders navigation ...

That SQL statement would reflect both LINQ queries. That leads to another way of "thinking in LINQ": If you feel your code is easier to read or maintain by having separate LINQ queries, don't hesitate ...

As I mentioned Monday and in my Visual Studio 2008 review, I've been struggling with the finer points of LINQ queries. In a talkback comment to my review, "CSharper" pointed me at one solution to ...

LINQ (Language Integrated Query) is a query execution pipeline that adds query capabilities to languages targeted at the managed environment of .Net. LINQ to SQL is an ORM (Object Relational ...

So I tried the Dynamic LINQ method, but it is still not giving me much love: Original LINQ Query Expression: Code: ...

Because I almost never write long linq queries in Linq to Objects without just converting to the pipeline-esque (or fluent if you prefer) style via extensions methods.