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Language Integrated Query (LINQ) for .NET and its System.Query, System.Data.DLink, and System.Xml.XLink classes enable relational-to-object and XML-to-object mapping with first-class CLR data types.

Microsoft software architect Erik Meijer dreams of a "democratized" Web in which programming in the cloud is accessible to the masses. But he also has a recurring nightmare: "What happens if [chief ...