Before reading this book, I had read a few blogs and tutorials on LINQ, enough to realize I needed to better understand the technology. The book seemed ideal: short, assumed you knew XML, C#, etc and had plenty of example code. (and was one of the less expensive books on the subject).



Unfortunately it seems to have been put together hurriedly. Much of the example code doesn't work as published, some of the code is sloppy (variables initialized but never used), and the actual output of the code doesn't match what the text says it should be.



Fortunately, the text itself is clear and gives you enough of a sense of what is going on that you can, with some effort, get the examples going.