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Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008 | 
 enlarge | Author: Joseph Rattz Jr
Publisher: APRESS
Category: Book
List Price: £27.99
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 154630
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 600
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7 x 1.3
ISBN: 1590597893
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.741
EAN: 9781590597897
ASIN: 1590597893
Publication Date: November 21, 2007
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 Not up to Apress's usual standards February 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Some books make you feel that you are learning secrets from an insider sitting next to you. Unfortunately this book feels like they asked the summer intern sitting next to you to read the documentation for LINQ then a week later to show you the cool things he has been able to do with it. He tries hard, but you know he would really prefer to be surfing.
The book is very repetitious. A lot of the text is cut and paste then change a few words here and there. The code samples follow the pattern - cut and paste and change a couple of lines. The callouts repeat what is in the main text. Much of the book is just a regurgitated version of the docs.
The writing style tries to be chummy but really grated with me. The text is littered with 'wow!', 'How slick is that?', 'awesome!' and other such phrases. One section even ends with the words 'Sweet! Dude!'. Perhaps a better title for this book would be 'Joe Rattz's excellent adventures with LINQ'.
The book covers all you need to know about LINQ but I found it very tedious.
Pro LINQ not very pro ! February 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this book thinking that it will have a detailed explanation of LINQ. But eventhough the book claims to be for professionals, most of the material is taken from MSDN especially the secion on LINQ for SQL is literally copy-paste.
I have given it 2 stars for the only reason that the subject is new and the author has gone into a trouble to get the MSDN parts and put them together in a book.
 Sacha Barber : Visual C# MVP and LINQ Lover January 19, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I got this book some time ago, and have only just finished it, but already it has become one of my most treasured posessions (sad I know..but remember i'm a geek).
Now I am no stranger to LINQ, and have written numerous articles on LINQ myself, and have been using LINQ for about 1 year now, but I have to say the attention that Joe Rattz has given it in this book, is nothing short of excellent.
The 1st 1/3 of the book didn't yield anything new to me personally, but LINQ newbies would surely benefit from this section. But for me personally the treatment of the 2nd and 3rd parts of the book were just great. And they were where the real action lay.
Of particular merit for me was Chapter 17 Concurreny Conflicts, when dealing with LINQ to SQL. There are about 25 pages in this chapter, but this is a big issue, and its handled beautifully and dutifully by Mr Rattz. I take my hat off to him for this chapter. In fact in my opinion it's worth buying this book just for that chapter alone.
That's not to say the rest of the book isn't good, because it is. It's all good.
Now I don't know if you are aware about some of the new C# syntax, but some that are new to C#, go a bit crazy with automatic properties, object initializers, anonomous delegates, lambdas everywhere...And to be honest it becomes quite obscure looking code (not to mention hard to debug).
When I first heard about this book, my fear was that there would be lots of this sort of code in this book, but thankfully I was proved wrong.
There are lambdas, but the are used when required, and not use for the sake of it.
All in all I thoroughly recommend this book.
Buy it, buy it now.
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