Contents tagged with LINQ
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LINQ or Lync?
There's a new "link" from Redmond. It's not LINQ this time, but Lync.
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Testing object databases for .NET: Eloquera, STSdb, Siaqodb, Ninja Database Lite
Given all the activity around databases lately with the NOSQL movement, I decided to give a try to some of the new contenders.
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Hex Dump using LINQ (in 7 lines of code)
Eric White has posted an interesting LINQ query on his blog that shows how to create a Hex Dump in something like 7 lines of code.
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New LINQ tools category on SharpToolbox.com
I've just moved the LINQ tools referenced on SharpToolbox.com to a new dedicated LINQ category.
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LINQ in Action XML samples now in LINQPad too
After we published the code samples for LINQ in Action's first chapters in LINQPad a few weeks ago, the samples of three more chapters have just been added. These chapters cover LINQ to XML. Thanks Jim for doing the additional conversion.
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LINQ in Action samples in LINQPad
Do you know LINQPad? It's a really simple but great tool for testing LINQ queries. Not only that, but it can be used to test all kinds of C# and VB code snippets.
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ForEach debate continued
Eric Lippert, whose blog you shouldn't miss, adds his own arguments to the debate about whether using a ForEach extension method instead of foreach is a good idea or a bad one.
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LINQ em Ação, LINQ in Action in Portuguese
After English, German and Spanish, LINQ in Action is now available em Português.
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LINQ Deep Dive: great LINQ tips
Zeeshan Hirani who already offered us a 500-page Entity Framework learning guide, now publishes great LINQ tips in the first part of his LINQ Deep Dive articles. These tips are not the usual introductions to LINQ features you can find elsewhere. You can tell that they come from someone who lives in the trenches. I learnt very interesting features and best practices I didn't know about.
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ForEach or not ForEach, that is the question
In LINQ in Action, we discuss about the missing ForEach query operator. This is in Chapter 5 "Beyond basic in-memory queries", more precisely in section 5.2.2. There, we indicate that Eric White suggested this operator in his functional programming tutorial, although I'm not able to find the exact reference at the moment in this tutorial.