Samples that demonstrate LINQ technologies in C# are provided on the local drive under the <drive>:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Sample folder and at the following online locations:
Visual Studio 2008 Samples page
Visual C# Developer Center
Instructions for opening and running the samples are also located online.
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Sample Queries
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Provides examples of query operations for LINQ to Objects, LINQ to SQL, LINQ to XML, and LINQ to DataSet.
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Data Sample
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Designed to support many of the scenarios demonstrated in various LINQ samples.
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NorthwindMapping Sample
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Generates object-relational mapping files used by some other samples.
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Simple LINQ to Objects Sample
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Shows how to query an in-memory collection.
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Dynamic Query Sample
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Illustrates how to create LINQ queries dynamically at runtime.
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Expression Tree Visualizer Sample
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Provides a working implementation of a visualizer that can be run inside the Visual Studio debugger to view the contents of an expression tree.
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LINQ to Northwind Sample
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Provides examples of using LINQ to SQL to query a database.
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LINQ Query Visualizer Sample
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Small application that you can run in debug mode inside Visual Studio to test the Expression Tree Visualizer.
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Object Dumper Sample
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A library that you can add to your solution to output the results of LINQ queries for testing.
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Paste XML as LINQ Sample
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Demonstrates a Visual Studio add-in that translates an XML code example to the C# code that produces equivalent XML in the LINQ to XML API.
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Reflector Sample
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Generates an HTML document that outlines the public API for a given assembly.
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RSS Sample
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Acts as a small Web server that aggregates several RSS feeds.
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Simple Lambdas Sample
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Provides examples of simple lambda expressions.
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Windows Forms Data Binding Sample
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Demonstrates how to use LINQ in Windows Forms data-binding scenarios.
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Introduction to LINQ to XML Sample
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Demonstrates key concepts about LINQ to XML.
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XQuery Sample
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Shows how to use LINQ to XML to solve the use cases in the XQuery standard.
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LINQ to XML Databinding Sample
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Demonstrates the LINQ to XML data binding to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) feature.
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LINQ Sample Applications in Visual Basic
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Descriptive information about the Visual Basic LINQ samples.
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Whitepapers
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Provides a link to whitepapers that provide additional information about LINQ.
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Language-Integrated Query (LINQ)
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Includes a general explanation of LINQ and links to related technologies.
