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.

You have a method like this that returns a collection of premium Customer objects: Public Function GetPremiumCustomers() As List(of Customer) Dim db As New dbContextObject Return From c In ...

LINQ with Entity Framework has become so common that, when I'm looking at a client's code I'm finding some pretty scary-looking LINQ queries running against Entity Framework. Since I'm a big fan of ...

If you start "thinking in LINQ" you'll get more done with less code, and what you write will be simpler than using SQL. Switching to LINQ and the Entity Framework (EF) means that code you'll write for ...

I am not really even sure how to Google search for this, as I am not really sure how to formulate the question, so I'll try and give an example. I am using LINQ-XML to parse an input file that I want ...

The C# programming language provides excellent support for working with collections of data. C# includes several classes and interfaces that can help you query collections of data efficiently. The ...

So I'm playing around with Visual Studio 2010 while we think about moving our projects to it, and I was trying to make a new Silverlight 4 app, but when I go to add any kind of of data models (ADO, ...