Ebook: Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2010

Being a novice at LINQ, I found this book to be very helpful. I am a visual person, so the examples in the book helped me to get started pretty quickly. I was able to pick up the syntax right away. Chapter 1 and 2 give you the basics. Once you read these chapters, you have a syntax aware foundation that will help in understanding the rest of the book. The chapter on LINQ to XML was thorough and gave me an idea for my next project. Of interest to me were the chapters on LINQ to DataSet and LINQ to SQL as I am currently on a project that is using LINQ. I found good examples on how to harness the power of LINQ in these situations. I did not get a chance to read the chapter on Parallel LINQ so I could not comment on that.

My only suggestion to the author would be to include a chapter on how to use best practices and patterns to implement LINQ in a real world scenario.

Overall, I really recommend this book.