Calvert, Charlie, and Dinesh Kulkarni. Essential LINQ. Addison-Wesley, 2009. Discusses the concepts behind LINQ project and presents technologies that build on top of LINQ, including LINQ to Entities, LINQ to XML, and LINQ to SQL.

Gamma, Erich, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John M. Vlissides. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004. The essential book about design patterns that describes all the patterns referenced in chapters 7 and 8.

Marguerie, Fabrice, Steve Eichert, and Jim Wooley. LINQ in Action. Manning Publications, 2008. Presents general-purpose LINQ query facilities in C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9 and describes how to use LINQ when working with objects, XML documents, and databases. ...

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