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4. What made LINQ possible

5. var contacts = from contact in contacts where contact.Phone.StartsWith("509") select new { contact.Name, contact.Phone }; var contacts = customers.Where(item => item.Phone.StartsWith("509")).Select(contact => new { contact.Name, contact.Phone, Age=42}); C# 3.0 Language Summary Extension methods Lambda expressions Query expressions Object initializers Anonymous types Local variable type inference Property initialization

6. Programming with LINQ

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