LINQ in Action - THE LINQ book

[Blog Map]  Debugging LINQ queries can be problematic.  One of the reasons is that quite often, you write a large query as a single expression, and you can’t set a breakpoint mid-expression.  Writing large queries in expression context is particularly powerful when using functional construction to form XML (or using the strongly ...

I was in a meeting this afternoon, and someone said that they wished that there was a comparison of XPath expressions and LINQ to XML queries.  Well, this already exists in the LINQ to XML document.  The topic title is LINQ to XML for XPath Users.  If you already speak XPath, this can provide a head-start on learning how to write ...

You may optionally be making a number of modifications to a very large XDocument object.  Because of a complicated algorithm, you may not necessarily know ahead of time whether you will be making changes.  If you don’t make any changes, then you don’t want to unnecessarily serialize the tree and save it to disk, or send it over the ...

When I was writing the LINQ to XML documentation, Ralf Lämmel was the program manager for LINQ to XSD, an incubation project in the data programmability group at Microsoft.  Ralf really helped me a lot in those days, both with questions on LINQ to XML, and questions around functional programming.  It was in email exchanges ...