LINQ

LINQ in Action by Fabrice Marguerie, Steve Eichert, and Jim Wooley

• I would recommend the book to anyone trying to learn LINQ as a technology.
• Very solid book to pick up deep enough information to start using LINQ, written in a very nice way not hard or boring to read.
• If you want to learn LINQ, this book will teach you.
• This book is a pure pleasure to read.
• A great buy for the novice LINQ programmer.

Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2010 by Joseph Rattz and Adam Freeman

• The book is comprehensive, well-organized, the prose is clear and the samples are understandable.
• This book is a great introduction to advanced LINQ concepts.
• Great book to learn about C# and a few other things.
• The book is very accessible and understandable.
• Being a novice at LINQ, I found this book to be very helpful. I really recommend this book.

Programming Microsoft® LINQ (PRO-Developer) by Paolo Pialorsi and Marco Russo

• An easy to read text and constant reference.
• I appreciate the level of approach and comprehensiveness of this book.
• This is enhanced version of Introducing Microsoft LINQ.

Essential LINQ 1st Edition by Charlie Calvert and Dinesh Kulkarni

• The quality of this book is very high in technical content and style of writing.
• A most excellent book, a pleasure to read, and highly recommended.
• This is a very good introductory text to LINQ.
• This book was very good. It was easy to understand yet gave a large amount of details and explanations.

Professional LINQ by Scott Klein

• Got me started on LINQ.
• I think this book is a good reference for developers that want to get into LINQ to XML or LINQ to SQL.
• Kudos to Scott Klein on writing a solid book on LINQ and providing a lot of detail as to the specifics.
• I do like this book, really.

LINQ Unleashed: for C# 1st Edition, by Paul Kimmel

• Great book. I learned LINQ for C# using this book.
• The book quite thoroughly covers LINQ to SQL, LINQ to XML, and much more.
• The book really helps you to get up and running using LINQ.
• This is one of the best technical books I have read in a long time.
• I highly recommend this book. It is easy to read and keeps you interested.

LINQ to Objects Using C# 4.0: Using and Extending LINQ to Objects and Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) 1st Edition by Troy Magennis

• I found the book to be very informative.
• Covers lots of concepts and basic examples to understand the functions and methods. i would highly recommend for learning LINQ.
• Highly recommended for anyone use Linq in any of its flavors.
• It is good.
• A great book which describes many topics of LINQ. For beginners and advanced.