Get a history of the evolution to LINQ
Anson Horton wrote a very nice article for the MSDN magazine June 2007 edition. It gives you an overview of how LINQ (Language Integrated Query) has evolved from the idea of the concept to an actual technology. A nice extra on this article is that he shows a lot which new language features in C# 3.0 made it actually possible to come to version on LINQ we have now. It’s thanks to Lambda Expressions, Extension Methods, Anonymous Type, Implicitly Type Local Variables, Object Intitializers and Query expressions that LINQ can offer you a very nice language enhancement to query for example objects, dataset, xml, …
Check it out at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/06/csharp30/default.aspx
Juliam said,
November 23, 2007 at 3:20 pm
great article, but… the images are missing