LINQ For Dummies is your gateway to a new world — one in which you can

ask questions (programmatically) of literally anything. This book starts with
the basics. You need to discover the LINQ basics before you can begin pulling
information from Active Directory, but LINQ is so small compared to
many technologies that the basics require only a few pages. Most of this book
is about getting serious work accomplished.After working with LINQ for a while, I discovered that there are inequities in
the LINQ world.

For one thing, it seems as if Microsoft is avoiding Visual
Basic .NET because their Web site has a decided lack of Visual Basic .NET
materials. It was hard to find Visual Basic .NET examples on third-party Web
sites too.

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