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 …
LINQ, Language INtegrated Query, is a new extension to the Visual Basic and C# programming languages designed to simplify data queries and database interaction. It addreses O/R mapping issues by making query operations like SQL statements part of the programming language. It also offers built-in support for querying in-memory collections like arrays or lists, XML, DataSets, and relational …
This comprehensive book teaches you how to build data-rich business applications with Silverlight 2 that draw on multiple sources of data. Packed with reusable examples, Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 covers all of the data access and web service tools you need, including data binding, the LINQ data querying component, RESTful and SOAP web service calls, and Microsoft’s …
Presenting four amazing Wrox books from an unparalleled author team cover the exciting new features of .NET 3.5. This essential boxed set contains the following key titles: Professional ASP.NET 3.5 covers all the important new features of the 3.5 version of ASP.NET, Professional C# 2008 provides the necessary background information on how the .NET architecture works, .NET Domain-Driven …
This updated and expanded second edition of Book provides a user-friendly introduction to the subject, Taking a clear structural framework, it guides the reader through the subject’s core elements, which can be used as a learning material for students pursuing their studies in undergraduate and graduate levels in universities and colleges and those who want to learn …
Murach’s ADO.NET 3.5, LINQ, and the Entity Framework with C# 2008 (Murach: Training & Reference)
You won’t get far as a C# developer unless you know how to write database applications.That’s where this book comes in. It shows you how to use Visual Studio 2008 and ADO.NET 3.5 to develop database applications the way the best professionals do.That includes the full gamut of skills you need, from using prototyping features that generate ADO.NET …
Every C# programmer needs to learn about LINQ (Language–Integrated Query), Microsoft’s breakthrough technology for simplifying and unifying data access from any data source. With LINQ, you can write more elegant and flexible code―not just to access databases and files, but to manipulate data structures and XML. This book is a short, yet comprehensive guide to the major features …
Pro LINQ Object Relational Mapping in C# 2008 (Expert’s Voice in .NET)
This book aims to give experienced .NET developers a thorough grounding in Object Relational Mapping methodologies and show how LINQ can be used to achieve them. It provides detailed A-Z coverage of the key concepts and ideas in a clear, easy to follow, manner. The book is split into two parts. The first provides a detailed explanation of …
WCF 4.0 Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ to Entities
This book is a step-by-step tutorial to guide you through learning WCF and LINQ to Entities. You will be guided to create five WCF and LINQ solutions from scratch, of which three are multi-tiered real-world WCF service solutions, so you will not only be reading, but also be coding through the book, to gain practical experience of WCF …
Language Integrated Query (LINQ), as well as the C# 3.0 and VB 9.0 language extensions to support it, is the most import single new feature of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.x. LINQ is Microsoft’s first attempt to define a universal query language for a diverse set of in-memory collections of generic objects, entities persisted in …