Chapter 3. Basic Data Manipulation Techniques

After completing this chapter, you’ll be able to:

  • Describe how Language Integrated Query (LINQ) makes application development easy

  • Create an application that uses LINQ to work with information in a List control

  • Write code that relies on LINQ

  • Test an application that uses LINQ

  • Trace through the application to see how it works

  • Extend the first application to provide additional functionality

THE PURPOSE OF MOST APPLICATIONS is to manipulate some sort of data. Manipulation can take many forms—everything from displaying the data in a certain form to changing it. Whenever you look at a user interface, it displays some type of data. Even a simple message box (one of those tiny dialog boxes that Windows seems to ...

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