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