LINQ C# Samples

Samples that demonstrate LINQ technologies in C# are provided on the local drive under the <drive>:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Sample folder and at the following online locations:

Visual Studio 2008 Samples page

Visual C# Developer Center

Instructions for opening and running the samples are also located online.

In This Section

• Sample Queries
  Provides examples of query operations for LINQ to Objects, LINQ to SQL, LINQ to XML, and LINQ to DataSet.

• Data Sample
  Designed to support many of the scenarios demonstrated in various LINQ samples.

• NorthwindMapping Sample
  Generates object-relational mapping files used by some other samples.

• Simple LINQ to Objects Sample
  Shows how to query an in-memory collection.

• Dynamic Query Sample
  Illustrates how to create LINQ queries dynamically at runtime.

• Expression Tree Visualizer Sample
  Provides a working implementation of a visualizer that can be run inside the Visual Studio debugger to view the contents of an expression tree.

• LINQ to Northwind Sample
  Provides examples of using LINQ to SQL to query a database.

• LINQ Query Visualizer Sample
  Small application that you can run in debug mode inside Visual Studio to test the Expression Tree Visualizer.

• Object Dumper Sample
  A library that you can add to your solution to output the results of LINQ queries for testing.

• Paste XML as LINQ Sample
  Demonstrates a Visual Studio add-in that translates an XML code example to the C# code that produces equivalent XML in the LINQ to XML API.

• Reflector Sample
  Generates an HTML document that outlines the public API for a given assembly.

• RSS Sample
  Acts as a small Web server that aggregates several RSS feeds.

• Simple Lambdas Sample
  Provides examples of simple lambda expressions.

• Windows Forms Data Binding Sample
  Demonstrates how to use LINQ in Windows Forms data-binding scenarios.

• Introduction to LINQ to XML Sample
  Demonstrates key concepts about LINQ to XML.

• XQuery Sample
  Shows how to use LINQ to XML to solve the use cases in the XQuery standard.

• LINQ to XML Databinding Sample
  Demonstrates the LINQ to XML data binding to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) feature.

Related Sections

• LINQ Sample Applications in Visual Basic
  Descriptive information about the Visual Basic LINQ samples.

• Whitepapers
  Provides a link to whitepapers that provide additional information about LINQ.

• Language-Integrated Query (LINQ)
  Includes a general explanation of LINQ and links to related technologies.