LINQ – Complete bridge between Data and Code

A query is an expression in code that is used for retrieving data from any data source.

Many languages come up with different way of extracting data from various data source

(SQL from relational database, XQuery from XML etc.)

Developers has to learn new languages for every types of data sources.

LINQ offers a consistent model that extracts data from various kinds of data sources and formats.

LINQ follows a common coding pattern to extract data from XML documents, SQL databases, ADO.NET datasets, and any other

formats for all a LINQ provider is available which converts to objects collection for processing.

LINQ always works with objects.