LINQ in Action - THE LINQ book

The primary purpose of any ORM system is to map relational data onto objects in your programming environment.  Mapping here refers to the meaning in the mathematical sense that there is a correspondence from one item to the other.  For example, a database row might map to an object, or a field in a database might map to a property. Some ...

LINQ to SQL, possibly Microsoft’s first OR/M to actually ship in ten years of trying, was never even supposed to exist.  It started out as a humble Visual Studio project on my desktop machine way back in the fall of 2003, long before anyone heard about it, long before anyone even guessed what would come next, except for the readers of this ...

A new update to LINQ preview is available at MSDN site. What's the coolest new feature?  IMHO, its IQueryable<T>.   DLINQ's query mechanism has been generalized and available for all to use as part of System.Query.  It implements the Standard Query Operators for you using expression nodes to represent the query. Your ...