The language designers have added powerful new features to C# that enable you to write SQL-like queries on any arbitrary sequence. Simply put, if you can foreach it, you can query it.

Returning LINQ Results A LINQ query always returns a collection (which may have 0, 1 or many objects). However, the collections returned from LINQ+EF aren't exactly like other collections. For ...

You don't ever have to write a complicated LINQ/Entity Framework query, but you do need to know when to call the ToList method on your query. Here's a tip on both.

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 ...

As I was testing the LINQ to SQL functionality in Visual Studio 2008, I found myself missing the SQL Query Builder. For the relatively simple three-table inner join SELECT queries I needed, I was ...

You have a method that contains a LINQ query. If you use the right interface, other developers can piggyback on your method with their LINQ queries without losing efficiency.