James Wooley

Jim Wooley has been working with .Net since PDC 2000 and has been actively evangelizing LINQ since its annoucement in 2005. He leads the Atlanta VB Study Group and serves as INETA Membership Manager for the Georgia region.

books by James Wooley

LINQ in Action
  • January 2008
  • ISBN 9781933988160
  • 576 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Software Development / Software Engineering / Database Development / Database Programming

LINQ in Action will guide you along as you navigate this new world of lambda expressions, query operators, and expression trees. You'll also explore the new features of C# 3.0, VB.NET 9.0. The book is very practical, anchoring each new idea with running code.

You will discover all the basics needed to get a clear understanding of LINQ. Whether you want to use LINQ to query objects, XML documents, or relational databases, you will find all the information you need to get started.

But LINQ in Action does not stop at the basic code. This book also shows you how LINQ can be used for advanced processing of data. This includes coverage of LINQ's extensibility, which allows querying more data sources than those supported by default.

All code samples are built on a concrete business case. The running example, LinqBooks, is a personal book cataloging system that shows you how to create LINQ applications with Visual Studio 2008.