Dimensions
179 x 231 x 18mm
The first practical, expert, real-world guide to designing more powerful, maintainable C# applications with LINQ to Objects in C# 4.0.
* By Microsoft MVP Troy Magennis, creator of HookedonLINQ.com and a leading expert on LINQ to Objects.
* Shows how to apply LINQ features to both new and existing applications.
* Illuminates complex topics other books gloss over, including in-memory joins, grouping, sub-selecting sets, and performance.
* Teaches the best ways to write custom LINQ to Objects operators.
LINQ is one of the most exciting sets of development technologies Microsoft has introduced in years. Microsoft MVP Troy Magennis's new book is the first to focus on LINQ to Objects, which enables .NET developers to write queries over object collections with the same deep functionality that was formerly available only with SQL and relational databases. Using LINQ to Objects and this practical book, developers can work with objects more elegantly and efficiently than ever before. Magennis begins with five-minute quick-starts demonstrating LINQ to Objects' main features. Next, he drills down to specific real-world techniques for customizing and using these features. He organizes this book around a series of action-oriented 'How To' headings offering timely solutions to the most common development challenges. Drawing on his extensive experience coding LINQ software and hosting the popular HookedonLINQ.com site, he drills down into the problems that he has seen to be most common to developers learning LINQ to Objects. Throughout, Magennis's extensive, realistic examples illuminate LINQ to Objects as it is really used in production development - helping experienced C# developers write software that of unprecedented power, robustness, and maintainability.
