Language-Integrated Query, or LINQ for short, brings a query execution pipeline directly into C# and the managed environments of .NET Framework and .NET Core.

When I was writing my review of Visual Studio 2008, I built a little console application that generated JavaScript data structures from a SQL Server 2000 database in C#, using LINQ to SQL. As I ...

Then, I can write a LINQ query to get the values easily enough, but I want the numerical representation of the values, so I am using the Parse method(s).