Visual Studio 2008 comes with LINQ provider assemblies that enable the use of LINQ with data sources such as in-memory collections, SQL relational databases, ADO.NET Datasets, XML documents, etc. In Visual Studio 2008, Visual C # and Visual Basic are the languages that implement LINQ language extensions. LINQ language extensions use the new standard query operators API, which is a query language for any collection that implements IEnumerable. What you will learn from this book? Overview of new features for LINQ in NET 3.0 -. Partial methods, expressions, anonymous types, initializers, and implicitly-typed local variablesAccessing data structures in memory by using LINQ - lists, arrays, and dictionaries directly query collections and filtering the required values without using powerful filtering, ordering, and grouping capabilities to Create and manipulate XML data through. NET using XElement and XAttribute Creating and navigating an XML tree using the Functional ConstructionImporting and exporting data from dictionaries, databases, objects, and CSV filesCreating and manipulate database objects by using the DataContext objectWorking with stored procedures, user-defined functions, handling concurrency conflicts, and transactions during updatesWorking database with data frame. NET provider and DataSetsUsing DataSet for easier and faster to queries from the cache dataWorking with trees and un-typed XML type using the standard query operators XSDExamining provided by LINQ and query data using them for your own standard query sourcesImplementing operatorsBuilding ASP web application. NET Approach This book introduces the reader to basic concepts of LINQ, and take them through using LINQ with sample-driven approach. Who is this book written for? This book is for. NET developers who want to find out exactly what LINQ is, what it can do for them, and how to program with LINQ.