Extension methods are methods that you write to extend the public ... because it's the only way the compiler knows what type they might be. Now you know the basic syntax for LINQ queries. The language ...

he uses the method-based syntax. A little while back, I did a column on how to join two collections in LINQ to generate queries like, "Get me all of the customers, with their salesorders (if they have ...

In a talkback comment to my review, “CSharper” pointed me at one solution to finding the LINQ equivalent of a SQL “SELECT DISTINCT” query: tack on a LINQ .Distinct() method call to the ...