Complete Practical LINQ Tutorial in C# (Udemy.com)
LINQ to Entities, LINQ to Objects, LINQ to XML, Functional Programming and LINQ
Created by: Engineer Spock
Last updated July 2020
What you will learn
- Understand all the LINQ operations
- Filtering, Ordering, Projecting with LINQ
- Aggregating with LINQ
- Joining, Grouping, Aggregating with LINQ
- Converting with LINQ
- Generate Data Streams
- LINQ to XML
- LINQ to Entities
- Fundamentals of Functional Programming
How it compares
Against the other 194 rated Udemy courses in C# on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.2 out of 5higher than 17% of them
- Reviews172#129 of 195 by number of reviews
- Length4.7 hoursshorter than 58% of them
- Last updatedJuly 2020earlier than 61% of them
Course Description
Extension methods were introduced in C# 3 and since then became an indispensable part of the .NET platform. That enormously powerful feature allowed to build a whole framework built upon it called LINQ or Language Integrated Query. I’ve seen many code bases which avoid using LINQ and rely on old procedural style of programming. If you still feel yourself uncomfortable with LINQ or you want to improve your understanding of LINQ, then this course is for you. As you might know, LINQ was inspired by functional paradigm and F# in particular. So, this course is not only about LINQ but about the fundamentals of functional programming as well.
This course covers:
The basics of LINQ: extension methods, the idea of pipelining, IEnumerable, implementing our own extension, query syntax, pitfalls of LINQ operations, how to alter a list
Generating data streams: Enumerable class and its main operations, implementing your own extension which generates a stream of data
Filtering, Ordering, Projecting: Parsing a CSV file, ThenBy, First, Last, Single, TakeWhile, SkipWhile,Any, All, Contains, SequenceEqual, Select and SelectMany
Joining, Grouping, Aggregating: Join, Group, GroupJoin, Zip, Sum, Average, Min, Max
Conversions: OfType, Cast, ToArray, ToList, ToDictionary, ToLookup, AsEnumerable, AsQueryable
LINQ to XML: overview, generating XML from a collection, reading XML
EF and LINQ: Expression Trees, Inserting into and Reading from a database
Extendibility in C#: what is functional programming (FP), purity and side effects, extending IDisposable, general-purpose extensions, extending StringBuilder, Primitive Obsession
In short, this is a great course, so enroll right now and start learning LINQ and the fundamentals of functional programming.
Instructor Details
- 4.2 Rating
172 Reviews
Engineer Spock
I'm thankful enough for that I love what I do.
I began my career as a postgraduate student participating in Microsoft ImagineCup contest.
I've been working with .NET platform since 2003. I've been professionally architecting and implementing software for nearly 7 years, primarily based on .NET platform. I'm passionate about building rich and powerful applications using modern technologies. I'm a certified specialist in Windows Applications and Service Communication Applications by Microsoft. I'm one of the coordinators of the MSK.NET User Group in Moscow.
"If it's work, we try to do less. If it's art, we try to do more." - Seth Godin.
What I can say is that software is my art.
More courses by Engineer Spock
Algorithms and Data Structures in C#: Complete Tutorial (2026)
4.6 (2,310 Reviews)
Provider: Udemy
Time: 18.5h
$64.99
Learn Enterprise WPF with XAML from Scratch (2020)
4.1 (1,503 Reviews)
Provider: Udemy
Time: 5.1h
$11.99
Software Architecture: Meta and SOLID Principles in C# (2020)
4.3 (1,310 Reviews)
Provider: Udemy
Time: 4.8h
$11.99
Master the Art of Writing Clean Code in C# (2020)
4.5 (1,231 Reviews)
Provider: Udemy
Time: 7.2h
$79.99
More C# courses
C# Developers: Double Your Coding Speed with Visual Studio (2018)
4.7 (4,035 Reviews)
Provider: Udemy
Time: 2.2h
$13.99
Object Oriented Programming with C# - Beginner to Advanced (2020)
4.7 (2,063 Reviews)
Provider: Udemy
Time: 5.6h
$64.99
Learn Game Development with C# Programming and MonoGame! (2025)
4.7 (1,094 Reviews)
Provider: Udemy
Time: 6.6h
$12.99
Reviews
By Vladyslav Kryshevsky on 12/23/2023
I finished the course, I would like to note that the topic of LINQ is covered perfectly. Other additional topics were also covered and some pitfalls in certain code implementations were solved.
By Yogindra Singh on 7/18/2022
Example is being mismatching and bit confused .. navigation is creating difficulty to understand in well manner. Tab navigation should be lesser while practical example to have a mature understanding.
By Alexander Stark on 5/1/2022
Der Kurs ist wirklich super. Es wird alles ausführlich erklärt. Das schöne ist, dass die Videos sehr kurz sind, dadurch hat man den Vorteil, wenn man etwas nachschauen möchte, kommt man schnell an die gewünschten Informationen. Man muss nicht in langen Videos suchen.
By Luis Fernando Zarazua on 12/30/2020
Very good instructor, with concepts that are too many interesting, also the examples are good for practicing and debugging, you learn in this course a lot.
By Ronaldo Peres on 11/19/2020
Very good content in this course. Some parts could be better explained, as they are advanced content and I know there is a lot of programmers that can get lost.
By Mkhosi Muzi Tembe on 8/26/2020
The course was highly informative I laerned so much. I wish more was said or tought in the linq to entities especially combininit with asp.net MVC as this would give more insight. I learned a lot and am happy.
By Cathy Dopp on 3/23/2020
The examples really helped clarify patterns that I've encountered in a huge project I've inherited. (And your English is excellent too.) Спасибо
By Anonymized User on 11/27/2019
Good course. Audio could be beter at some points. (volume to low) and the audio is sometimes only on the left channel.
By Anonymized User on 7/31/2019
The author has a profound understanding of the topics and brings useful and real examples to illustrate the main concepts of what is being taught.
By André Torres Corrêa on 6/24/2019
This course goes beyond just Linq, it also gives you a bit about functional programming and extension methods in C#. The linq part is great, but the functional paradigm is a bit more complex, and I needed to watch more than one time to get it.
Quality Score
No CourseDuck member has rated this course yet. Taken it? Give each part a thumbs up or down.
Overall Score : 84 / 100












