To start the new year, here a few new LINQ resources I have found :

• LINQ and datasets in the Compact Framework 3.5
• Understanding LINQ
• LINQ Introduction Part 1
• LINQ Introduction Part 2
• LINQ Introduction Part 3

On my the blog of my friend Kris, i found another interresting LINQ resource.  The LINQ cheat sheet created by Milan Negovan.

A new set of LINQ resources (all from the Visual Basic Team Blog) :

Converting SQL to LINQ :

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5

Implementing dynamic search using LINQ.

LINQ Cookbook

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 7
• Part 8
• Part 9
• Part 10
• Part 11
• Part 12

Some new resources about LINQ.

First Brian Finnerty told me about Innerworkings who has teamed up with Microsoft and offers some free LINQ training (C# 3.0 and VB.Net 9) to the developers.  It's practice based and fully integrated in VS2008.  More info can be found here http://www.innerworkings.com/promotions/75d4bd51-4bf1-4d8a-8c47-73135e44837a/visual-studio-2008-promotion.

Futhermore (Txs Kris) Microsoft has the classic 101 samples, now also on LINQ.

• C# : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/aa336746.aspx
• VB.Net : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/bb688085.aspx

Also through my friend Kris van der Mast I found a LINQ Wiki page.  This Wiki page contains everything about LINQ related technology and has a great resource list also.  Here's the link : http://www.hookedonlinq.com/Default.aspx?Page=MainPage&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

Since I'm busy on my current project with LINQ, I collect some interresting links for LINQ.

Some video material (for the moment 11 videos) about LINQ can be found on the asp.Net under the learn section.

The Microsoft LINQ discussion forum : http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showforum.aspx?forumid=123.

Through my friend Kris van der Mast, I also found out about a nice tool, called LINQPad.  It's a great tool to learn LINQ without using (the heavy ) VS2008.  They even have a LINQ quiz, so you could test your knowledge .

This is it for the moment.  I will keep you up to date if I have some other interesting links about LINQ.

For those who want to start with LINQ, Scott Guthrie has a good starting 9 part course.  Find the first part here.

I'm going to start with C# 3.0 and LINQ.

Microsoft has released samples and hands on labs , so this will be good palce to start with.

You can download the files here :

• LINQ and language samples for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
• LINQ Hands On Labs
• C# 3.0 Language Enhancements Hands On Lab