A new book on Language Integrated Query titled LINQ has been announced by Packt. LINQ is a new feature in Visual Studio 2008 that extends its query capabilities, using C# and Visual Basic.

Visual Studio 2008 comes with LINQ provider assemblies that enable the use of LINQ with data sources such as in-memory collections, SQL relational databases, ADO.NET Datasets, XML documents, etc. In Visual Studio 2008, Visual C# and Visual Basic are the languages that implement the LINQ language extensions. LINQ language extensions use the new standard query operators API, which is the query language for any collection that implements IEnumerable

This book gets readers started with LINQ and shows how it will make their programming life easier by making use of new features from the .NET Framework 3.0. The book is split into seven chapters, each of which is dedicated to presenting a feature of LINQ and its usage in real-life scenarios. It introduces the reader to the basic concepts of LINQ, and takes them through using LINQ with an example-driven approach.

This book is for .NET developers who want to find out exactly what LINQ is, what it can do for them, and how to program with LINQ. The book is published by Packt and is available now.

For more information about this book, please visit http://www.packtpub.com/linq-quick-starter/book