
Explore language integrated query (LINQ) in C# and its ability to perform sorting, set operations, filtering, quantifier operations, projection, partitioning, joining, grouping, and aggregation.
Learn how LINQ queries retrieve data from a source, create and execute a query, and understand deferred execution through a simple C# example that returns even numbers.
Sort a list of words with LINQ by length using order by, then handle ties by original order, and combine sorting by first character with substring for multi-criteria sorting.
Explore LINQ set operations—union, intersection, distinct, and accept—through practical examples that combine two number lists, identify common values, remove duplicates, and exclude elements from the second list.
Explore filtering with LINQ to select words of length three and further narrow results by starting with F using where, length checks, and substring.
Explore quantifier operations in LINQ, including all, any, and contains, through market and fruit examples that show how to check all fruits, any fruit starting with o, and kiwi presence.
Explore projection in linq by transforming objects into new forms using select with substring to get first letters, split to extract words from sentences, and zip to pair lists.
Explore partitioning data with skip and take in C# LINQ, including skipping the first three items, skipping while a condition holds, and taking the first three items.
Explore how to join product and category tables in LINQ using the join keyword on category ID to display product names with their category names in a single result set.
Group the numbers by type (odd or even) using LINQ, then count each group and select the type and its count to verify the results.
Explore generation operations in linq, including default if empty for empty lists yielding zero for int and false for bool, and use range and repeat from enumerable to create sequences.
Explore element operations in LINQ: first, first or default, last, last or default, and single for a unique element; handle no elements and more than one matching element.
Explore the concatenation operation in LINQ by combining two tables of cats and dogs with the concat function, and display the merged results in code.
Master aggregation operations in C# LINQ by calculating the minimum, maximum, sum, average, and count from a numbers list. Learn to filter with where and count specific values.
Learn how to use LINQ to search for the word sample in text, split the text into words, filter with where, and count the occurrences (three).
Extract numbers, letters, and non-alphanumeric characters from text with a linq query. Use Char.IsDigit and Char.IsLetter in where clauses, combine with and and not, and verify results.
Split data from one file into multiple files using LINQ by filtering even and odd numbers, converting strings to integers, and writing results with StreamWriter.
Learn to use linq to extract text files from a folder by filtering on the .txt extension and printing results to the console.
Extract the largest file from a folder using LINQ by listing files, sorting by length in descending order, and selecting the first result.
(LINQ) or Language-Integrated Query is the name for a set of technologies based on the integration of query capabilities directly into the C# language.
In this tutorial, we will learn how top perform operations such as
Sorting
Set Operations
Filtering Operation
Quantifier Operations
Projection Operation
Partitioning the data
Joining the objects
Grouping the data
Generation operations
Element Operations
Concatenation of data/objects
Aggregation functions
And Few use cases of LINQ such as finding largest file from a folder, finding specific files and much more.
Different languages have been developed over time to access data from various sources.
For example, to access data from sql server, we have SQL also called as Structured Query Language.
Similarly, to access data from XML, we have something called Xquery.
A query is an expression that retrieves data from a data source.
Different languages have been developed over time to access data from various sources.
For example, to access data from sql server, we have SQL also called as Structured Query Language.
Similarly, to access data from XML, we have something called Xquery.
All LINQ query operations consist of three distinct actions:
1 Obtaining the data from source.
2 Creation the query.
3 Execution the query.