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Chapter 10. Managing Data with Arrays and LINQ

After completing this chapter, you’ll be able to

• Use arrays to store numeric and string data.

• Use a For…Next loop to access array elements and display them in a text box.

• Use methods in the Array class to sort and reverse array elements.

• Understand LINQ syntax.

• Use LINQ to retrieve data from one or more arrays.

• Use LINQ to retrieve data from XML documents.

BECAUSE THERE IS SO MUCH DATA in the world—employee records at the office, price and product information online, confidential patient records at the clinic—it makes sense that software developers are spending a lot of time thinking about how data is managed in their programs. In Microsoft Visual Studio, an important technology used for extracting and managing ...