As I mentioned Monday and in my Visual Studio 2008 review, I've been struggling with the finer points of LINQ queries. In a talkback comment to my review, "CSharper" pointed me at one solution to ...

So lately, I've been climbing the LINQ learning curve and enjoying myself the entire time. It's been a lot of fun figuring out what neat things I can do with LINQ, but naturally I have some questions.

If you start "thinking in LINQ" you'll get more done with less code, and what you write will be simpler than using SQL. Switching to LINQ and the Entity Framework (EF) means that code you'll write for ...

Complex queries can be solved with a combination of simpler LINQ queries, anonymous objects and the Group/By/Into clauses. Using Group/By/Into will also give you the best possible performance for ...

I am not really even sure how to Google search for this, as I am not really sure how to formulate the question, so I'll try and give an example. I am using LINQ-XML to parse an input file that I want ...