Linq

LINQ or Language Integrated Query is great for application developers to develop applications that interact with databases. But remember it is a tool and like every tool, you have to use it wisely to achieve the best results. I currently maintain a web based application that is meant to allow job scheduling, and provide users a way to interact with the jobs that are currently running too. Some of the features include, stop the job that is running, skip one among the several jobs, restart the job, resume from a particular section in the job etc....

LINQ stands for Language Integrated Query Language. It was a feature introduced along with Visual Studio 2008 that extends the querying capabilities of C# for any sort of data source. Generally LINQ is used to query data sources like SQL Server Databases and XML files. I use it to query databases. I’m not going to explain everything about LINQ here. I’m going to just talk about some very basic details....