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2010 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Hello LINQ
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Did you just feel
your
world shift? As a. NET developer, you should have. With the trivial programming example in Listing 1-1, you just ran what somewhat appears to be a Structured Query Language (SQL) query on an array of strings.
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Check out that where clause. If it looks like we used the EndsWith method of a string object, it’s because we did. You may be wondering, what is with that variable type var? Is C# still performing static type checking? The answer is yes; it still statically checks types at compile time. What feature of C# is allowing all of this? The answer is Microsoft’s Language Integrated Query, otherwise known as LINQ.