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Part I: Introduction to Project LINQ
The goal of LINQ to SQL and its related tools is to drastically reduce the work of the database developer.
Chapters 9–13 will discuss LINQ to SQL in much more depth.
Summary
This chapter introduced you to the LINQ project, a set of .NET Framework extensions that extend the
C# and Visual Basic .NET programming languages with a native query language syntax that provides
standard query, set and manipulation operations.
This chapter began by discussing LINQ and the set of standard query operators that is a combination
of SQL query capabilities with the power and flexibility of data manipulation. From there, the
topics of LINQ to XML and LINQ to SQL were discussed, which take the power and flexibility of LINQ
and apply it to the querying of relational data and XML documents using the same syntax provided
by LINQ.
With this foundation, the next chapter will take a look at the next release of Visual Studio by looking at
the specific features LINQ supports for Visual Basic 9.0 and C#.
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