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Language Integrated Query, also known as LINQ, is a query execution pipeline that adds query capabilities to languages targeted at the managed environment of .Net. Parallel LINQ, or PLINQ, is a query ...

LINQ promises programmers the ability to query data from any source within Visual Basic or C#. "Programming Microsoft LINQ," from Microsoft Press, is a tremendously detailed and helpful guide to the ...

So I've got this large dataset...call it t_Data, it's pretty easy to cut it up with a where condition in LINQ, but I want to be able to interrogate another dataset....call it q_Category (which ...

Complex queries can be solved with a combination of simpler LINQ queries, anonymous objects and the Group/By/Into clauses. Using Group/By/Into will also give you the best possible performance for ...

JNBridge, the Boulder, Colo.-based maker of tools that connect Java and .NET Framework-based components and apps, last week released another in its evolving series of free interoperability kits. The ...

Entity Framework Core 3.0, which shipped on Sept. 23, includes a new LINQ implementation that Microsoft explained in an announcement post. LINQ (Language Integrated Query) uses C# code to query ...

Do you think that LINQ is just another in a long series of odd Microsoft technologies? This database-meets-software-development technology could easily save your development staff time and avoid ...

I am working with a collection of data from an Excel-like form. Basically it is elevation vs distance data, with a few other things (all functions of distance). I am trying to pair down the sheer ...