One of the features Visual Basic.Net offers is LINQ, Language Integrated Query. LINQ is designed to fill the gap between traditional .Net Languages with strong typing and SQL-languages, designed for query operations.

LINQ offers the possibility to use queries in your traditional programming language, wether you want to query objects, XML or databases.

There are three basic types of LINQ, each offering specific capabilties for specific sources:

• LINQ to Objects
• LINQ to XML (also reffered to aas XLINQ)
• LINQ to SQL (DLINQ)

Articles in this category introduce the reader to all three LINQ-types. Please feel free to ask for more help via the developers forum.