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Chapter 14: An Introduction to LINQ

This chapter will begin your examination of Language Integrated Query (LINQ), which could easily

be considered the most intriguing aspect of .NET 3.5. As you will see in this chapter, LINQ allows

you to build strongly typed 

query expressions, which can be applied to a number of LINQ targets to

manipulate “data” in the broadest sense of the word. Here, you will learn about LINQ to Objects,

which allows you to apply LINQ expressions to containers of data (arrays, collections, custom

types). This information will serve you well when we examine how to apply LINQ expressions to

relational databases (via LINQ to ADO) and XML documents (à la LINQ to XML) later in Chapter 24.