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 enlarge | Authors: Paolo Pialorsi, Marco Russo
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Category: Book
List Price: $49.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 25551
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 660
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 1.7
ISBN: 0735624003
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9780735624009
ASIN: 0735624003
Publication Date: May 24, 2008
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 Not for VB.NET people July 10, 2008
5 out of 15 found this review helpful
I got this book after reading the reviews on Amazon where it was rated fairly well. As a VB.Net programmer, I have tried to use the book several times and been totally frustrated. Not only because all the code samples are C#, but because I could rarely find anything that related to what I was trying to do (e.g. populate a datagrid, create a crystal report, etc. If you are a VB person, find another book.
 If you liked their last book... June 3, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
In the interest of full disclosure, I did assist in some of the technical editing of this book. However my opinion of it here is as objective as I can be.
If you read their last book, you'll certainly be able to appreciate the attention to detail the authors give to the material as well as their in-depth knowledge of the subject matter. There last book was 5 stars across the board, but b/c of how early it came out, it was concise and to the point. This one takes a slightly different approach, characterized best as 'no stone unturned'. With respect to LINQ, the competition among books is pretty intense. Pretty much every book ocvers LINQ fundamentals and does it in a unique enough way that you get a good bit from it.
The best way I would characterize this book is that it's like their last one if it went to the gym and did powerlifting for 2 years. Including indices and tables etc, it's just under 660 pages. Each chapter is 30+ pages and they cover LINQ in the same sequence as they did before just with more examples.
Where I was most impressed was in Chapter 11 on Expression trees. They provide a really exhaustive discussion on the subject matter and even though Expression Trees aren't the most exciting things in the world, you get a ton of detailed content that never gets boring. And what you get here is something you get throughout the book - enough examples to cover just about every scenario you'll likely encounter at work. To that end, it reminds me much of the exhaustive coverage David Sceppa gave Core ADO.NET - where he had an example for every question scenario you'd ever ask about.
In chapter 12 they cover Extending Linq - which, isn't something you'll probably need to do today but is definitely something that's going to become prevalent as time progresses.
Then they move into Parallel LINQ in Chapter 13 and cover n-tier linq in chapter 15. The performance implications of LINQ is not something that's been covered much until this point and I think they did a superb job on it.
Then they move into LINQ and ASP.NET , LINQ and WCF and finish things up with a discussion on the Entity Framework. If I paid the entire book price and got only a single chapter of any of the ones after 11 - I'd still feel I got my money's worth. And that's not to say the < Chapter 11 ones aren't good - on the contrary they are quite good - it's just that starting in 11 they really touch upon areas that haven't gotten a whole lot of attention until now.
If you're new to linq - this book will be your ADO.NET Core reference equivalent. If you've been working with LINQ for a while - you'll feel the same way. It's well written, interesting, covers scenario after scenario and gives you both the basics and the really core internals information that will no doubt make this "The" LINQ book.
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