Sams Teach Yourself C# 5.0 in 24 Hours

Hour 13. Understanding Query Expressions

What You’ll Learn in This Hour

• Introducing LINQ

• Using LINQ to manipulate data

• Standard query operator methods

• Deferred execution

In Hour 10, “Working with Arrays and Collections,” you learned how applications could work with data stored in collections. Applications also need to work with data stored in other data sources, such as SQL databases or XML files, or even accessed through a web service. Traditionally, queries against these different data sources required different syntax and performed no type checking at compile time.

For example, consider a collection of customers. How would you search that collection for all customers with a specific job title? Using what you have learned so far, ...