I have read my first book on c# and feel completely clueless about LINQ. Please suggest reader-friendly linq material.
Thanks
A:
I highly recommend Jon Skeet's "C# In Depth". He walks you through the updates .net 2 and 3 which you need to understand to fully appreciate what's going on with Linq. You may also have seen his name around here :)
Rob Scott
2009-04-28 22:31:01
Jon's book is great, but I think he deferes to "LINQ in Action" for more details on LINQ.
Steve Haigh
2009-04-29 11:03:05
I defer to LINQ in Action when it comes to details for LINQ to SQL and similar providers. I think I give a fairly good description of the translation of query expressions to "normal" code, and the LINQ to Objects operators.
Jon Skeet
2009-05-03 18:59:41
I found that once I had understood the material in Jon's book the "Link In Action" book was a very quick read -- more of reference than anything else. Jon's book had explained the magic. :)
Rob Scott
2009-06-04 12:55:02
+1
A:
Microsoft created LINQ. So why not start with the Microsoft documentation about it?
Promit
2009-04-28 22:33:49
+1
A:
As a reference guide Pro Linq is IMO the best one.
Once you are more experienced and want to know more of the internals Programming Linq is the book you want.
Also there are some great blogs out there, Matt Warrens, and Bart De Smets are wonderfull resources for advanced Linq topics.
But the absolute best place to start as a beginner is the 101 linq samples site, and actually try them out.
Tim Jarvis
2009-04-28 23:29:17
+1
A:
Charlie Calvert from Microsoft wrote a great blog post here which gives you a good insight into coding with LINQ.
I hope that helps.
Ian.
Ian Roke
2009-04-28 23:39:38
A:
And I didn't really use this tastes-like-SQL(tm) syntax and use good old mix of methods and lambdas like
list.Where(n => n.Something == searchingFor)
.Select(n => new { Whatever.... })
.OrderBy(xxx)
Works the same, uses same features, but look less ackward to me. And for the guide I use Intellisense.
Migol
2009-04-29 10:45:14