LINQ - Language INtegrated Query - is probably the most successful innovation in .NET since ... well ... since .NET. There have been lots of others ... MVC, Entity Frameworks, WPF. But they just haven't hit a home run like LINQ has. There's an old saying that success has many fathers but failure is an orphan. LINQ has lots of "homes" these days. It's being included in more and more data technologies. So this week, I'm starting a new series about LINQ.
Although the About Visual Basic site already contains several articles explaining various parts of LINQ, it's not complete and it's not organized as well as it could be. I plan to reorganize some of the existing content as well as writing new content to fill in blank holes. Wish me luck!
The first installment is an introduction to the overall LINQ technology - what it covers and what you can do with it - with a new example showing how LINQ could be used to start web pages using selections made with CheckBox controls.
The first LINQ article can be found here: LINQ - An Example Driven Introduction