Chapter 12
Querying and Manipulating Data Using LINQ
This chapter is about Language INtegrated Query (LINQ), a set of language extensions that add the ability to work with sequences of items and then filter, sort, and project them into different outputs.
This chapter will cover the following topics:
- Writing LINQ queries
- Working with sets using LINQ
- Using LINQ with EF Core
- Sweetening LINQ syntax with syntactic sugar
- Using multiple threads with parallel LINQ
- Creating your own LINQ extension methods
- Working with LINQ to XML