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From there, the
topics of LINQ to XML and LINQ to SQL were discussed, which take the power and flexibility of LINQ
and apply it to the querying of relational data and XML documents using the same syntax provided
by LINQ.
With this foundation, the next chapter will take a look at the next release of Visual Studio by looking at
the specific features LINQ supports for Visual Basic 9.0 and C#.
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A Look at Visual
Studio 2008
Many of the new language features and enhancements in Visual Studio 2008??”both in Visual C# and
Visual Basic .NET??”make many of the LINQ features possible and enable you to take advantage of
some of the LINQ capabilities.
Included with the new Visual Studio release are a number of designers that can help developers
visually create many aspects of their SQL entity classes and associations. For example, the Object
Relational Designer (O/R Designer) provides a visual interface for creating and designing LINQ
to SQL entity classes and associations of database objects. The O/R Designer is discussed
in Chapter 15, ??????Advanced LINQ to SQL topics.


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