Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008 (Windows.Net)
by Jr., Joseph C. Rattz
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Author: Jr., Joseph C. RattzEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-11-19
ISBN: 1590597893
Number of pages: 600
Publisher: Apress
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Book Review: Sacha Barber : Visual C# MVP and LINQ Lover
Summary: 5 Stars
I got this book some time ago, and have only just finished it, but already it has become one of my most treasured posessions (sad I know..but remember i'm a geek).
Now I am no stranger to LINQ, and have written numerous articles on LINQ myself, and have been using LINQ for about 1 year now, but I have to say the attention that Joe Rattz has given it in this book, is nothing short of excellent.
The 1st 1/3 of the book didn't yield anything new to me personally, but LINQ newbies would surely benefit from this section. But for me personally the treatment of the 2nd and 3rd parts of the book were just great. And they were where the real action lay.
Of particular merit for me was Chapter 17 Concurreny Conflicts, when dealing with LINQ to SQL. There are about 25 pages in this chapter, but this is a big issue, and its handled beautifully and dutifully by Mr Rattz. I take my hat off to him for this chapter. In fact in my opinion it's worth buying this book just for that chapter alone.
That's not to say the rest of the book isn't good, because it is. It's all good.
Now I don't know if you are aware about some of the new C# syntax, but some that are new to C#, go a bit crazy with automatic properties, object initializers, anonomous delegates, lambdas everywhere...And to be honest it becomes quite obscure looking code (not to mention hard to debug).
When I first heard about this book, my fear was that there would be lots of this sort of code in this book, but thankfully I was proved wrong.
There are lambdas, but the are used when required, and not use for the sake of it.
All in all I thoroughly recommend this book.
Buy it, buy it now.
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