I just finished the book LINQ In Action. All I can say is wow. There is so much to cover with this technology and this book does a very good job of doing just that.
The book starts off with the origins and goals of LINQ then jumps right in with how to use and extend it. Most if not all aspects of LINQ to Objects, LINQ to SQL and LINQ to XML are all covered very well. The examples are easy to follow and understand which is important for me as I tend to learn from replicating the samples. Most of the code snippets are in C#, but there are some VB.NET samples as well (where XML Literals are discussed).
The level of the book ranged from fairly easy to understand to advanced topics. In my opinion, just about every level of developer should learn something from this book. The parts I did not understand will come later as I will be referencing this book for the foreseeable future.
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The book starts off with the origins and goals of LINQ then jumps right in with how to use and extend it. Most if not all aspects of LINQ to Objects, LINQ to SQL and LINQ to XML are all covered very well. The examples are easy to follow and understand which is important for me as I tend to learn from replicating the samples. Most of the code snippets are in C#, but there are some VB.NET samples as well (where XML Literals are discussed).
The level of the book ranged from fairly easy to understand to advanced topics. In my opinion, just about every level of developer should learn something from this book. The parts I did not understand will come later as I will be referencing this book for the foreseeable future.