LINQ in Action is a fast-paced, comprehensive tutorial for professional developerswho want to use LINQ. This book explores what can be done with LINQ, shows you how it works in an application, and addresses the emerging bestpractices. It presents the general purpose query facilities offered by LINQ in theupcoming C# 3.0 and VB 9.0 languages. A running example introduces basicLINQ concepts. Readers then learn to query unstructured data using LINQ toXML and relational data with LINQ to SQL. Finally, the book shows how toextend LINQ for custom applications. The book is very practical, anchoringeach new idea with running code.