LINQ supports a large number of query operators — keywords that enable you to select, order, or
fi lter data that is to be returned from the query. Although all of the examples in this chapter are discussed
in the context of EF, you can easily apply them to the other LINQ implementations as well.
In the following section you get an overview of the most important standard query operators, each
followed by an example. Each of the examples uses the object model and the ObjectContext object
called myEntities you created earlier as the data source to query against