Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008

LINQ Is Not Just for Queries

Maybe by definition you could say LINQ is just for queries because it stands for Language Integrated Query. But please don't think of it only in that context. Its power transcends mere data queries. I prefer to think of LINQ as a data iteration engine, but perhaps Microsoft didn't want a technology named DIE.

Have you ever called a method and it returned data back in some data structure that you then needed to convert to yet another data structure before you could pass it to another method? Let's say for example you call method A, and method A returns an array of type string that contains numeric values stored as strings. You then need to call method B, but method B requires an array of integers. You normally end ...