LINQ: Language Integrated Query for .NET. Overview of Microsoft’s .NET framework. Application management. Support for multiple programming languages. Common intermediate language, types, runtime. Accessing SQL from Java and from C#. Aim of closer query/programming language integration. LINQ example using SQL-style syntax; its expansion into method calls. Programming language features added to C# in support of this: lambda expressions, extension methods, structural datatypes, anonymous datatypes, type inference, expression trees and metaprogramming.
More references and some of the background to LINQ below the fold. The next lecture is on F#: I’m looking for online guides to LINQ or F#, so if you find any that you think useful, then please put them in the comments. Thanks.
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