LINQ in C#?

[Mark G.]

is LINQ built into VS 2008 for C# or is it a seperate download? Is the
download free? Quickly looked on MSDN and couldn't find what I was after so
I was hoping some of you could help? Thanks much.

 

[Mr. Arnold]

is LINQ built into VS 2008 for C# or is it a seperate download? Is the
download free? Quickly looked on MSDN and couldn't find what I was after
so I was hoping some of you could help? Thanks much.

Linq is part of the .NET 3.5 Framework used by VS 2008. The 3.5 Framework
is free to download, which should come in the installation of VS 2008 I
would think.


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[Martin Honnen]

is LINQ built into VS 2008 for C# or is it a seperate download? Is the
download free? Quickly looked on MSDN and couldn't find what I was after so
I was hoping some of you could help? Thanks much.

The various LINQ implementations (e.g. LINQ to objects, LINQ to XML,
LINQ to SQL) are part of the .NET framework 3.5 library. Visual Studio
2008 installs .NET 3.5 thus if you have VS 2008 then you can certainly
build and run .NET 3.5 applications using LINQ.
I think LINQ to Entities was added in Service Pack 1 of .NET 3.5 thus if
you want to use that too then you need to install that service pack.