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Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is a very powerful new technology coming to us with Visual Studio 2008. There is a great deal of innovation going on in the LINQ space, including innovative projects like LINQ-to-Flickr and LINQ-to-Amazon (among many others), in addition to the great things Microsoft is providing in LINQ-to-SQL and LINQ-to-XML. This article dives deeper into the more mundane details about how to optimally query data you already have in memory via LINQ-to-Objects. LINQ lets you do queries on any object (typically collections or arrays) that support IEnumerable. For example, if you have an online bookstore, you might decide to cache your products in memory on the Web server to improve performance. In such a case, you might have a List bookCache th... (more)