Thinking in LINQ: Harnessing the power of functional programing in .NET applications

Introduction

This book won’t teach you the basics of LINQ. It will teach you how to use it appropriately. Having a jackhammer is great only if you know how to use it properly; otherwise, you are not much better off than someone with a hammer. LINQ is powerful. Powerful beyond measure. I hope you will see some of that power by following the examples in the book.

Here is a brief walk-through of the chapters:

• Chapter 1: Thinking Functionally

  Our generation of programmers has been raised with object-oriented programming ideas. This initial chapter is dedicated to showing how functional programming is different from object-oriented programming. This chapter sets the context for the rest of the book.

• Chapter 2: Series Generation

  This chapter has recipes ...