One interesting aspect of VB queries is that you can select multiple values. When you do this, the values get combined into an anonymous type. “Anonymous types” is a new feature for VB9. Essentially an anonymous type is a class that contains one or more...

This seems to be a common question - " I have a list of lists (or array or arrays), how can I flatten it into a single list/array? " It is surprisingly trivial to do with queries. It takes one line of code - Module Module1 Sub Main() 'create...

This post is a part of a series of posts about query design. For the previous post see: http://blogs.msdn.com/vladimirsadov/archive/2007/06/07/query-pattern-composability-query-design-continued.aspx As you might have seen queries have a lot more...

This post is a part of a series of posts about query design. For the previous post see: http://blogs.msdn.com/vladimirsadov/archive/2007/06/07/query-pattern-composability-query-design-continued.aspx Here is another important example of a queryable...

This post is a part of a series of posts about query design. For the previous post see: http://blogs.msdn.com/vladimirsadov/archive/2007/06/08/generic-queryable-example-query-design-continued.aspx Here is one more example of a queryable type...

This post is a part of a series of posts about query design. For the previous post see: http://blogs.msdn.com/vladimirsadov/archive/2007/06/07/query-pattern-composability-query-design-continued.aspx Here is another example of a queryable collection...

This post is a part of a series of posts about query design. For the previous post see: http://blogs.msdn.com/vladimirsadov/archive/2007/02/19/polymorphic-selector-and-extension-methods-query-design-continued.aspx Here I want to summarize what...