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 covers the following topics:

• Writing LINQ queries
• Working with sets
• Using LINQ with EF Core
• Sweetening the syntax with syntactic sugar
• Using multiple threads with parallel LINQ
• Creating your own LINQ extension methods
• Working with LINQ to XML