Thinq Linq

If your initial impressions of Linq are that it's mainly for data-access (because of the syntax similarities to SQL, and the availability of Linq to SQL), thinq again!

The Linq Cookbook (although in Visual Basic) demonstrates the sorts of problems you can now solve in a couple of lines of code:

• Change the font for all labels on a windows form


• Find all capitalized words in a phrase and sort by length (then alphabetically)


• Find all complex types in a given assembly


• Find all the prime numbers in a given range


• Concatenating the selected strings from a CheckedListBox

If you do want to read more about Linq and SQL/data access, Explore LINQ, SQLMetal and SqlTac courtesy of Red-Gate.