C# Class 02/01/10 LINQ

Todays class covered the following information.

LINQ - Chapter 9 page 405.

LINQ: Language Integrated Query

Used for: to query arrays and Lists, Databases, variable.

Concept:

• pre-package data structures apart of .NET Framework


• reusable


• reliable


• known as list

What do a list

• element are dynamic, increase in size at execution to accommodate additional element

Syntax

• built into C#


• libarays are known as providers

LINQ

• declarative programming


• specifies not the steps necessary to get the result, but rather the conditions that selected element must satify

Example