Sebastopol, CA—With LINQ, you can query data from a variety of sources—including databases, objects, and XML files—directly from Microsoft Visual Basic® or C#. Guided by data-access experts who've worked in depth with LINQ and the Microsoft development teams, Programming Microsoft LINQ in Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Microsoft Press, $49.99 USD) will show you how .NET Framework 4 implements LINQ, and how to exploit it. Clear examples show you how to deliver your own data-access solutions faster and with leaner code.
Discover how to:
- Use LINQ to query databases, object collections, arrays, XML, Microsoft Excel® files, and other sources
- Apply LINQ best practices to build data-enabled .NET applications and services
- Manipulate data in a relational database with ADO.NET Entity Framework or LINQ to SQL
- Read, write, and manage XML content more efficiently with LINQ to XML
- Extend LINQ to support additional data sources by creating custom operators and providers
- Examine other implementations, such as LINQ to SharePoint®
- Use LINQ within the data, business, and service layers of a distributed application
- Get code samples on the Web
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Programming Microsoft? LINQ in Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Publisher: Microsoft Press By Paolo Pialorsi, Marco Russo Print ISBN: 9780735640573 Ebook ISBN: 9780735640566 Pages: 704 Print Price: $49.99 Ebook Price: $39.99 order@oreilly.com 1-800-998-9938 1-707-827-7000 |
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