Sometime last year, while I wasn't paying attention, Microsoft announced something called LINQ. It stands for Language Integrated Query. You've seen this sort of thing before: you can embed a database query in your code and it gets compiled into something that queries the database and automatically stores the results in local variables. Never really took off.
LINQ is a little different. For one thing, you can query plain old boring in-memory data, including plain-vanilla arrays, with the same syntax. You can query XML documents the same way.
They did this by adding a largeish set of .NET class libraries and several major extensions to the C# and VB languages. Read about it in detail: Word .doc, HTML. Browse some example code.
More to come.
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