LINQ Pocket Reference Learn and Implement LINQ for . NET Applications

Name: LINQ Pocket Reference Learn and Implement LINQ for . NET Applications
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ISBN: 9780596519247

ISBN-10: 0596519249

ISBN-13: 9780596519247

Edition: 2008

Authors: Joseph Albahari, Ben Albahari

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Ready to take advantage of LINQ with C# 3.0? This guide has the detail you need to grasp Microsoft's new querying technology, and concise explanations to help you learn it quickly. And once you begin to apply LINQ, the book serves as an on-the-job reference when you need immediate reminders. All the examples in the LINQ Pocket Reference are preloaded into LINQPad, the highly praised utility that lets you work with LINQ interactively. Created by the authors and free to download, LINQPad will not only help you learn LINQ, it will have you thinking in LINQ. This reference explains: LINQ's key concepts, such as deferred execution, iterator chaining, and type inference in lambda expressions…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/18/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 164
Size: 7.40" wide x 7.05" long x 0.37" tall
Weight: 0.352
Language: English

Joseph Albahari is author of C# 3.0 in a Nutshell, LINQ Pocket Reference, and C# 3.0 Pocket Reference. He has been developing large-scale enterprise applications on .NET and other platforms for more than 15 years, and is author of LINQPad, the popular utility for querying databases in LINQ. Joseph is currently a freelance consultant.

Ben Albahari is cofounder of Genamics, a provider of tools for C# and J++ programmers, as well as software for DNA and protein sequence analysis. He is author of A Comparative Overview of C#, a frequently cited comparison of C# with C/C++ and Java that was recently named by DevX as one of the top 10 .NET sites. Ben is a resident of Perth, Australia, and in his spare time enjoys composing music on his computer. He can be reached at ben@genamics.com.



Getting Started


Lambda Queries


Chaining Query Operators


Composing Lambda Expressions


Natural Ordering


Other Operators


Comprehension Queries


Iteration Variables


Query Syntax Versus SQL Syntax


Query Syntax Versus Lambda Syntax


Mixed Syntax Queries


Deferred Execution


Reevaluation


Outer Variables


How Deferred Execution Works


Chaining Decorators


How Queries Are Executed


Subqueries


Subqueries and Deferred Execution


Composition Strategies


Progressive Query Building


The into Keyword


Wrapping Queries


Projection Strategies


Object Initializers


Anonymous Types


The let Keyword


Interpreted Queries


How Interpreted Queries Work


AsEnumerable


LINQ to SQL


LINQ to SQL Entity Classes


DataContext


Automatic Entity Generation


Associations


Deferred Execution with LINQ to SQL


DataLoadOptions


Updates


Building Query Expressions


Delegates Versus Expression Trees


Expression Trees


Query Operator Overview


Filtering


Where


Take and Skip


TakeWhile and SkipWhile


Distinct


Projecting


Select


SelectMany


Joining


Join and GroupJoin


Ordering


OrderBy, OrderByDescending, ThenBy, ThenByDescending


Grouping


GroupBy


Set Operators


Concat and Union


Intersect and Except


Conversion Methods


OfType and Cast


ToArray, ToList, ToDictionary, ToLookup


AsEnumerable and AsQueryable


Element Operators


First, Last, Single


ElementAt


DefaultlfEmpty


Aggregation Methods


Count and LongCount


Min and Max


Sum and Average


Aggregate


Quantifiers


Contains and Any


All and SequenceEqual


Generation Methods


Empty


Range and Repeat


LINQ to XML


Architectural Overview


X-DOM Overview


Loading and Parsing


Saving and Serializing


Instantiating an X-DOM


Functional Construction


Specifying Content


Automatic Deep Cloning


Navigating/Querying an X-DOM


Child Node Navigation


Parent Navigation


Peer Node Navigation


Attribute Navigation


Updating an X-DOM


Simple Value Updates


Updating Child Nodes and Attributes


Updating Through the Parent


Working with Values


Setting Values


Getting Values


Values and Mixed Content Nodes


Automatic XText Concatenation


Documents and Declarations


XDocument


XML Declarations


Names and Namespaces


Specifying Namespaces in the X-DOM


The X-DOM and Default Namespaces


Prefixes


Projecting into an X-DOM


Eliminating Empty Elements


Streaming a Projection


Transforming an X-DOM


Index