The simplest, most effective way to do that is to incorporate the LINQ queries that retrieve the related rows into your Select statement. For example, assume that you want to retrieve Customers ...

In an earlier column I walked through the details of how to use the Group/By/Into clauses in LINQ statements (in both C# and Visual Basic because Group works very differently in the two languages) to ...

You have a method that contains a LINQ query. If you use the right interface, other developers can piggyback on your method with their LINQ queries without losing efficiency.

You don't ever have to write a complicated LINQ/Entity Framework query, but you do need to know when to call the ToList method on your query. Here's a tip on both.

Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Anders Hejlsberg, the chief architect of the Visual C# programming language, is set to give the presentation on .Net Language Integrated Query Framework.

The framework will support unified programming models via integrated query capabilities in C# and Visual Basic, a strongly typed data access framework and an API for manipulating and querying XML.