Introducing Linq to Amazon

Posted by: Fabrice's weblog, on 26 Jun 2006 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

As an example that will be including in the Linq in Action book, I've created an example that shows how Linq can be extended to query anything.This example introduces Linq to Amazon, which allows querying Amazon for books using Linq! It uses Linq's extensibility to allow for language-integrated queries against a book catalog. The Linq query gets converted to REST URLs supported by Amazon's web services. These services return XML. The results are converted from XML to .NET objects using Linq to XML.For...

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