Brian Beckman shows off a simple hash join in LINQ , using VB9. The performace boosts reinforce some work my partner and I did, experimenting with load-time generated indexes over collections. There was a significant hit incurred when creating the...

A customer posed a good question to me the other day: outside of relational databases, what good is LINQ ? As an example, he suggested a chemistry drawing application. I couldn't help him directly on the GUI aspects, but I decided to figure out, given...