What are some good LINQ resources?

Question

I have just finished reading "LINQ in Action" which I have found to be a great resource. What are some other resources available?

Answer 1

101 LINQ Samples is fantastic and seriously helped me learn LINQ. Keep in mind some of the stuff is out-dated; the folding stuff has been moved to .aggregate().

Answer 2

"Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008" by Joseph C. Rattz Jr (published by Apress) is good.

Answer 3

A good concise guide to Linq is "Linq Pocket Reference", by Joseph Albahari, O'Reilly, 2008, (ISBN-13: 978-0-59-651924-7).

Although it's a pocket reference, it still seems to cover the whole Linq "landscape" well, including querying fundamentals, Linq to SQL, Linq to XML etc. Great for finding answers quickly.

Answer 4

I'm writing a series on my blog about solving Project Euler with C#3.0: you'll find lots of practical examples with LINQ there.

Answer 5

Here are a couple of very good series from The Visual Basic Team blog:

Converting SQL to LINQ
This goes through specific SQL constructs (FROM, GROUP BY, UNION, etc.) and how to represent them in LINQ to SQL.

LINQ Cookbook
This is a grab bag of more unique (not to say quirky, in some cases) techniques with LINQ.

Answer 6

ScottGu's blog has some great articles about using LINQ. He does some of the best walkthroughs of new .Net technologies.

Here's the series on LINQ to SQL he did:

• Part 1: Introduction to LINQ to SQL
• Part 2: Defining our Data Model Classes
• Part 3: Querying our Database
• Part 4: Updating our Database
• Part 5: Binding UI using the ASP:LinqDataSource Control
• Part 6: Retrieving Data Using Stored Procedures
• Part 7: Updating our Database using Stored Procedures
• Part 8: Executing Custom SQL Expressions
• Part 9: Using a Custom LINQ Expression with the <asp:LinqDatasource> control

Answer 7

Hooked on linq is a pretty good reference site with some examples.

Answer 8

The LINQ and Linq-to-SQL msdn forums contain a lot of very useful information:

http://forums.microsoft.com/Forums/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=123&SiteID=1

http://forums.microsoft.com/Forums/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=2035&SiteID=1