LINQ pocket reference
Ready to take advantage of LINQ with C♯ 3.0? This guide has the detail you need to grasp Microsoft's new querying technology, and concise explanations to help you learn it quickly. And once you begin to apply LINQ, the book serves as an on-the-job reference when you need immediate reminders. Al...
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Sebastopol, Calif.
O'Reilly Media
2008
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- LINQ Pocket Reference; Getting Started; Lambda Queries; Chaining Query Operators; Composing Lambda Expressions; Lambda expressions and Func signatures; Lambda expressions and element typing; Natural Ordering; Other Operators; Comprehension Queries; Iteration Variables; Query Syntax Versus SQL Syntax; Query Syntax Versus Lambda Syntax; Mixed Syntax Queries; Deferred Execution; Reevaluation; Outer Variables; How Deferred Execution Works; Chaining Decorators; How Queries Are Executed; Subqueries; Subqueries and Deferred Execution; Composition Strategies; Progressive Query Building
- Joining on multiple keysJoining in lambda syntax; GroupJoin; Flat outer joins; Joining with lookups; Ordering; OrderBy, OrderByDescending, ThenBy, ThenByDescending; OrderBy, OrderByDescending arguments; ThenBy, ThenByDescending arguments; Comprehension syntax; Overview; Comparers and collations; IOrderedEnumerable and IOrderedQueryable; Grouping; GroupBy; Comprehension syntax; Overview; GroupBy in LINQ to SQL; Grouping by multiple keys; Custom equality comparers; Set Operators; Concat and Union; Intersect and Except; Conversion Methods; OfType and Cast; ToArray, ToList, ToDictionary, ToLookup
- AsEnumerable and AsQueryableElement Operators; First, Last, Single; ElementAt; DefaultIfEmpty; Aggregation Methods; Count and LongCount; Min and Max; Sum and Average; Aggregate; Quantifiers; Contains and Any; All and SequenceEqual; Generation Methods; Empty; Range and Repeat; LINQ to XML; Architectural Overview; X-DOM Overview; Loading and Parsing; Saving and Serializing; Instantiating an X-DOM; Functional Construction; Specifying Content; Automatic Deep Cloning; Navigating/Querying an X-DOM; Child Node Navigation; FirstNode, LastNode, and Nodes; Retrieving elements
- Comprehension syntaxOverview; Indexed filtering; Where in LINQ to SQL; Take and Skip; TakeWhile and SkipWhile; Distinct; Projecting; Select; *Comprehension syntax; Overview; Indexed projection; Select subqueries and object hierarchies; Subqueries and joins in LINQ to SQL; Projecting into concrete types; SelectMany; Comprehension syntax; Overview; Outer iteration variables; Thinking in comprehension syntax; Joining with SelectMany; SelectMany in LINQ to SQL; Outer joins with SelectMany; Joining; Join and GroupJoin; Join arguments; GroupJoin arguments; Comprehension syntax; Overview; Join
- The into KeywordScoping rules; Wrapping Queries; Projection Strategies; Object Initializers; Anonymous Types; The let Keyword; Interpreted Queries; How Interpreted Queries Work; Execution; AsEnumerable; LINQ to SQL; LINQ to SQL Entity Classes; DataContext; Automatic Entity Generation; Associations; Deferred Execution with LINQ to SQL; DataLoadOptions; Specifying a filter in advance; Eager loading; Updates; Building Query Expressions; Delegates Versus Expression Trees; Compiling expression trees; AsQueryable; Expression Trees; The Expression DOM; Query Operator Overview; Filtering; Where