Via the MSDN Ireland blog and Mick Lohan, I discovered an e-Book and some sample chapters are available for free download.

Introducing Microsoft LINQ
by Paolo Pialorsi and Marco Russo
ISBN: 9780735623910

Chapter 1: LINQ Introduction
Chapter 2: C# Language Features
Chapter 3: Visual Basic 9.0 Language Features
Chapter 4: LINQ Syntax Fundamentals
Chapter 5: LINQ to ADO.NET
Chapter 6: LINQ to XML

Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX
by Dino Esposito
ISBN: 9780735624139

Chapter 1: The AJAX Revolution
Chapter 5: The AJAX Control Toolkit

Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 1.0
by Laurence Moroney
ISBN: 9780735625396

Chapter 1: Silverlight and User Experience
Chapter 5: Programming Silverlight with JavaScript

Here’s the link you’ll need:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ireland/archive/2008/01/21/free-microsoft-press-e-book-introducing-microsoft-linq.aspx

Original post via Ronan Geraghty.

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