Getting Started with LINQ - Part 2 (Language Enhancements)

In my previous post I summarized Microsoft Language Integrated Query (LINQ). Briefly discussed about its components as well as showed some code examples to highlight the sql query type syntax it uses. When we talk about LINQ, we are talking about number of little features that were added in .net 3.0 framework which are the building blocks of the LINQ. In this post I will discuss these features a little further as follows. Object Initializers Collection Initializers Anonymous Types, Implicitly Typed variables (var keyword) Lambda Expressions Partial Methods Extension Methods