Pedram Rezaei's Ramblings

SQL Server 2008 (aka Katmai) allows seamless transition between relational and nonrelational data, enabling users to access documents as data, encode complex XML hierarchies within XML, and query across relational and text data. So how is this achieved...

Before being able to talk about Lambda expressions, I need to wet your appetite by touching on the difference between Expressions and Statements: i = j; while (a) f(b); The above listing is an illustration of 2 statements. As you can see evaluation...

What is lazy evaluation? If you ask a functional programming enthusiast, you will probably get a reply similar to the one below: “Oh well, allow me to enlighten you: - In lazy evaluation, computation terminates whenever any reduction order terminates...

You can think of extension methods as the ability to add instance methods to already existing types. Having said that, I would immediately also tell you that it is just an illusion. You are not actually adding a method to an existing type. It is just...