</ iframe > </noscript> <!-- End Google Tag Manager (noscript) --> <div id="BeforeHeaderContent"> </div> <div id="HeaderContent"> <div id="ProjectTitle">Data Source for Entity Framework</div> <div id="PageTitle"><div id="PageTitleText">What is LINQ?</div></div> </div> <div id="AfterHeaderContent"> <!-- Spacing --> <span id="ToggleAllSectionsLink" class="FunctionLink"> <label id="CollapseAllLabel">Collapse All</label> <label id="ExpandAllLabel" style="display: none;">Expand All</label> </span> </div> <div class="BreadcrumbsContainer"><table><tr><td> <a href="ComponentOneLiveLinq.html">ComponentOne LiveLinq </a> > What is LINQ?</td></tr></table></div> <div id="BodyContent"> <p>LINQ, or Language Integrated Query, is a set of features in .NET 3.5 used for writing structured type-safe queries over local object collections and remote data sources.</p> <p>LINQ enables you to query any collection implementing the <b>IEnumerable</b> interface, including arrays, lists, XML documents, as well as remote data sources such as tables in SQL Server.</p> <p>LINQ offers the following important benefits:</p> <ul> <li>Compile-time type-checking</li> <li>Language integration (including IntelliSense support)</li> <li>Uniformity across different data sources</li> <li>Flexible, powerful, and expressive queries</li> </ul> <p>In order to use <b>LiveLinq</b> effectively, you must be reasonably proficient in LINQ. A deep coverage of LINQ is beyond the scope of this document, but there are several excellent resources available on the subject. We recommend the following:</p> <ul> <li>"C# 3.0 in a nutshell”, by Joseph and Ben Albahari. O’Reilly, 2007.</li> <li>“LINQ in Action”, by Fabrice Marguerie, Steve Eichert and Jim Wooley. Manning, 2008.</li> <li>“Programming Microsoft LINQ Developer Reference”, by Paolo Pialorsi and Marco Russo. Microsoft Press, 2008.</li> </ul> <a name="seealsobookmark"></a> </div> <div id="FooterContent"> <p> </p><p> </p><hr style="height: 1px"><p>Copyright (c) <script type="text/javascript"> var theDate=new Date() document.write(theDate.getFullYear()) </script> GrapeCity, inc. All rights reserved. <script> $(document).ready(function() { if (!(window.self !== window.top)) { // Not running in a frameset // Get the page name var pageName = location.href.substring(location.href.lastIndexOf("/") + 1); if (pageName.indexOf("#") != -1) { pageName = pageName.substring(0, pageName.indexOf("#")); } // Append to webframe.html var framePage = "webframe.html#" + pageName; location.href = framePage; } }); </script></p> <a target="_blank" href="http://our.componentone.com/groups/">Product Support Forum</a> | <a target="_blank" href="http://feedback.componentone.com/forums/255782-winforms-documentation">Documentation Feedback</a> </div> </body> </html>