description: The LDAP provider uses the following mapping between the LDAP syntax and ADSI syntax.

The query syntax is translated to the regular method call syntax (through a pure syntax transformation). So everything in the query syntax is representable in method form. The reverse is not true.

The reference documentation for the standard query operators in the xref:System.Linq namespace generally uses method syntax. Therefore, even when getting started writing [!INCLUDE vbteclinq] queries, ...