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Linq Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly))

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So if you have already bought C#3.0 in a nutshell from the same author, you don't need this at all.

This book helped LINQ 'click' in my head. Today, I use LINQ a lot-- it's a handy way to process a collection of items, inspect XML, or execute SQL. I use LINQ a lot for processing collections of items for various things, including databinding in WPF or ASP.NET. This book helps me remember little syntactic things here and there. When I first got the book, it was open constantly. Today-- it has taught me well enough that I always feel comfortable using LINQ expressions in my code.

When I'm writing LINQ code, I refer to this book about every 30 seconds. This book doesn't leave my desk. It's a fantastic reference manual for anyone dealing with LINQ in any capacity. I don't consider this book to be a step-by-step tutorial, but if you're familiar with LINQ, even just a little bit, this book will help you out. I often hit those "How do I do ________ with LINQ?", and this book always has the answer. I can't recommend it enough for any C# developer working with LINQ today.

"LinQ Pocket Reference" is fantastic for dev, so if you are a beginner in the 3.5 framework you will be able to do applications very quickly with this book and you will have deep learn about this aspect of the last framework for .NET languajes.

Gives you the right amount of detail, and yet it's not a tome. Great book, especially if you pair it up with LINQPad

Marshal is right: comparing "LINQ Pocket Reference" and the LINQ-related chapters in "C# 3.0 in Nutshell", it's hard to tell the two texts apart. The Albaharis also discuss LINQ in "C# 3.0 Pocket Reference" but, at only 20-plus pages, that one is clearly not in the same league.

Money well spent. Not having a need for the XML-related content left me with a 100-page book instead of a 150-page one, but the 100 pages were, typically for "Pocket Reference" titles, direct, systematic and practical.

I had relied on "101 LINQ Samples" MSDN page (Google it) as the starting point for all LINQ-related investigations, and was glad to find "LINQ Pocket Reference" a superior replacement.