Programming Microsoft® LINQ in Microsoft .NET Framework 4

Chapter 17. Other LINQ Implementations

Microsoft Language Integrated Query (LINQ) represents an important change in the way developers write code. As mentioned before in this book, if LINQ were only a new version of Embedded SQL for the new millennium, its impact would be limited to a relatively small layer of application architecture. However, the impact of LINQ very likely will become increasingly pervasive in the everyday life of most Microsoft .NET Framework programmers.

This chapter gives you a brief glimpse of other LINQ implementations available on the market. The content is divided into sections that group LINQ implementations by service category and by the type of data each handles. Most of these implementations are community-driven projects, ...