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Note

Many of the types that represent a LINQ result are hidden by the Visual Studio 2008 object browser. Make

use of 

ildasm.exe

or 

reflector.exe

to see these internal, hidden types.

LINQ and Implicitly Typed Local Variables

While the current sample program makes it relatively easy to determine that the result set is enu-

merable as a string collection, I would guess that it is 

not clear that subset is really of type

OrderedEnumerable. Given the fact that LINQ result sets can be represented using

a good number of types in various LINQ-centric namespaces, it would be tedious to define the

proper type to hold a result set, because in many cases the underlying type may not be obvious or

directly accessible from your code base (and as you will see, in some cases the type is generated at

compile time).

To further accentuate this point, consider the following additional helper method defined

within the Program class (which I assume you will invoke from within the Main() method):

static void QueryOverInts()

{

int[] numbers = {10, 20, 30, 40, 1, 2, 3, 8};