LINQ to DataSets – the Missing Manual
Last week I had to prepare a small presentation for a new LINQ workshop. For my research, I browsed through the MSDN documentation on LINQ where I came across a reference to "LINQ to DataSets". I couldn’t find any more information about it though, and so LINQ to DataSets got a small mention in my presentation, but I couldn’t say anything more about it.
This morning I discovered that Fabrice Marguerie and his co-authors have published a bonus 47-page chapter of their book "LINQ in Action
You can go get it right now.
Thanks Fabrice, for filling in the missing gap.
I’m going back to update my presentation…
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Frank Quednau
5 Feb, 2008
Nice chapter! Now I am just wondering how LINQ actually queries the DataSet. Is the expression tree translated into something that will use the same mechanics as e.g. a DataView’s filter? Are there any performance differences in querying via DatView or via LINQ, or is it all the same…
Fabrice
5 Feb, 2008
You’re welcome
It looks like you can’t link directly to the PDF. The link to the PDF can be found directly on the book homepage: http://www.manning.com/marguerie/
Thanks
Jim Wooley
8 Feb, 2008
Frank, Linq to Datasets just uses LINQ to Objects to query them in memory datasets. You may find better performance with a dataView in some cases. LINQ to Datasets gives you additional functionality in terms of complexity, joins, aggregation, set operations that you don’t get otherwise with the standard dataset implementations.