Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

What Is LINQ?

The LINQ project has been the most important new feature in the .NET Framework 3.5, affecting both Visual Basic 2008 and Visual C# 3.0. LINQ stands for Language INtegrated Query and is a project Microsoft began developing in 2003. The first beta versions saw the light in 2005 and eventually became part of the Common Language Runtime (CLR) with .NET 3.5 and later versions. As its name implies, LINQ is a technology that allows querying data directly from the programming language. LINQ is very important and revolutionary because most real-world applications need to access data by querying, filtering, and manipulating that data. The word data has several meanings. In the modern computer world, there are hundreds of different data sources, ...