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Language Integrated Query(LINQ)ForTheDotNETFramework

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Date: 2008-05-15

Time: 12:00

Room: BBL room 471

----+++ Speaker: Tom Lokhorst

----+++ Title: Language Integrated Query (LINQ) for the .NET Framework

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Modern day programmers need to deal with many different kinds of data. An
average commercial business application, very often includes logic to handle
in-memory data structures, XML documents and/or relational databases. All these
data sources have different domain specific languages to select, filter and
modify data, none of which have a good integration with the language in which
the application itself is written.

Language Integrated Query (Linq) is a set of libraries and tools for the .NET
framework designed to make it easier to deal with these different sources of
data. By extending the syntax of C# and Visual Basic, querying these different
data stores becomes as natural as any other operation in the language.

Linq comes with three different `providers'. One for querying objects, one for
SQL and one for XML. We will look at these three libraries to see how they work
and when they might be useful.