Essential LINQ
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Calvert, Charles
Essential LINQ / Charlie Calvert, Dinesh Kulkarni. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-321-56416-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Microsoft LINQ. 2. C# (Computer program
language) 3. Query languages (Computer science) 4. Microsoft .NET Framework.
I. Kulkarni, Dinesh, 1968- II. Title.
QA76.7.C35 2009
006.7'882—dc22
2008052508
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First printing March 2009
This book is dedicated to my wife Margie. When authors dedicate their books to their wife or parents, I perhaps unfairly suspect them of a failure of imagination or paucity of emotional range. I would have no problem coming up with other worthies to whom I could dedicate this book. My good friends, such as David Intersimone, Lino Tadros, John Kaster, and Steve Teixeira, have been a joy to me for many years. I’m blessed with a wonderful father, and I would be happy to dedicate another book to him. My siblings, nieces, nephews, and other relatives are deserving of a dedication. So are my godparents, George and MaryAnn Kephart. I’ve recently been reintroduced to the Pacific Northwest, and I undoubtedly could never have written a word of this text were it not for the regular support I get from the mountains, forests, and waterways of this wonderful land. My many spiritual mentors—Christian, Buddhist, and Hindu—have been the very air I breathe for many years, and I could do nothing without them. I also lucked into—through no skill of my own, and despite all my best efforts to deny myself the privilege—a wonderful wife to whom I can never sufficiently offer enough thanks. Margie, I once again find myself dedicating a book to you, wishing only that this simple dedication were worthy of even some small portion of all that you have done for me.
—Charlie Calvert
Dedicated to the Lord for all he has given and continues to give.
—Dinesh Kulkarni