Seeking Book Recommendations for C# and LINQ

Jav posted on Friday, October 09, 2009

I have been writing software in VB and also in Objective C (Language of MacOs X and iPhone). I need some books on C# and LINQ, to give me a QuickStart (or a kickstart).

Would appreciate some recommendations.
Thanks

Vinodonly replied on Saturday, October 10, 2009

for quickstart there is lot of free stuff from M$..

articles from scott gu

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/05/19/using-linq-to-sql-part-1.aspx

free book from ms for linq

http://programminglinq.com/files/folders/introducinglinqsamples/entry18.aspx

If that is not enough then go for linq in action from manning..

JonnyBee replied on Saturday, October 10, 2009

Hi,

I would strongly recommend the book "C# In a Nutshell"  by Joseph and Ben Albahari,  www.albahari.com . They also have excerpts from the book published as "Linq Pocket Reference" and "C# Pocket Reference".

The accompanying LinqPad is an excellent learning tool for Linq and all C#/VB.NET code. Available for free and with includes all samples from the "C# in a Nutshell" book. You can even hook up your own assembly with L2S or L2EF context and write/run Linq queries in C#, VB.NET and more languages.  http://www.linqpad.net

Joesph also wrote LinqBridge - a reimplementation of Linq over IEnumerable for .Net 2.0, also redefines Func/Action delegates and more to allow ndevelopers to use C# 3.0 syntax and L2O in .Net 2.0 programs. I've used LinqBridge in Csla for N2 to enable most of the features from Csla 3.7.1 and Csla 3.6.3.  This should also work for VB.NET in .Net 2.0.

DotNetKicks also offer a download (pdf book) of Scott Gu's Linq to Sql tutorial series.

Other interesting/recommended sites from me is:

• the wiki at www.hookedonlinq.com - this site has lots of info about Linq.
• Damien Guards blog at  http://damieng.com. He has also published several interesting extensions to Linq. And don't forget to printout his Linq2Sql CheatSheet that has one page for C# and one page for VB.BET.
  

Jav replied on Saturday, October 10, 2009

Thank you Vinod for your recommendations.
Thank you Johny for your recommendations and for your contributions to the Csla community.

By the way shouldn't I be getting something for writing the 37000th post. :-)
I mean, what are the odds!!