LINQ – LANGUAGE INTEGRATED QUERY

LINQ address the current database development model in the context of Object Oriented Programming Model

LINQ has a great power of querying on any source of data, data source could be the collections of objects, database or XML files. We can easily retrieve data from any object that implements the IEnumerable interface. Microsoft basically divides LINQ into three areas and that are give below.

• LINQ to Object
• LINQ to ADO.Net
  • LINQ to SQL Or DLinq
  • LINQ to DataSet
  • LINQ to Entities
• LINQ to XML