LINQ is one of Microsoft’s most exciting, powerful new development technologies. Essential LINQ is the first LINQ book written by leading members of Microsoft’s LINQ and C# teams.
LINQ to XML was developed with Language-Integrated Query over XML in mind and takes advantage of standard query operators and adds query extensions specific to XML.

1 – The Fundamentals of Linq Pt. 1
2 – Working with yield, Where, Select and the Stack Overflow Data
3 – Exploring Select, Tuples, and Anonymous Types
4 – Exploring Order, Take, Skip, and Aggregation Functions
5 – Exploring Element, Quantifying, and Set Operators as well as SelectMany.
6 – Exploring Conversion and Joining/Grouping Operators
7 – Linq to SQL and Expression Trees
8 – Introduction to Linq to XML
9 – Introduction to Parallel Linq (PLINQ

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