various implementations of LINQ

Question

State various implementations of the LINQ?

Answer 1

Implementations of LINQ are:

a) LINQ to SQL– It refers to the component of .NET Framework version 3.5 which gives a run-time infrastructure to manage the relational data as objects.

b) LINQ to DataSet - It refers to the component which makes it faster and easier to query over data cached in the DataSet object.

c) LINQ to XML – It offers an in-memory XML programming interface.

d) LINQ to Objects – It makes use of the LINQ queries with any IEnumerable or IEnumerable(T) collection directly, without using an intermediate LINQ provider or API, like LINQ to SQL or LINQ to XML.