SYSK 47: OLEDB deja vu? A look into LINQ.

Remember the promise of OLEDB?  Regardless of where the data is stored – relational database, exchange, text file, etc – OLEDB can retrieve it using familiar, SQL like syntax…

Well, LINQ is the new technology that can query into any type of data – objects, relational data, xml – using SQL like syntax. 
For example:

string[] names = { "Burke", "Connor", "Frank",
                       "Everett", "Albert", "George",
                       "Harris", "David" };

IEnumerable<string> expr = from s in names
                               where s.Length == 5
                               orderby s
                               select s.ToUpper();

Care to guess the result?  The answer is at this URL:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/future/linq/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/linqprojectovw.asp.

If this got you interested, make sure to check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/future/linq/ for info on LINQ and
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/future/linqsamples/ for sample code.

If you prefer a webcast, there is a 17 min demo available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f3746a0b-6057-46b0-8ab5-8ac272cc47e0&displaylang=en#filelist (see 20060112VBasicASDemo.EXE file).