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Thursday, July 24, 2008 6:00 PM

LINQ Farm: More on the LINQ Aggregate Operators

The LINQ aggregate operators allow you to perform simple math operations over the elements in a sequence. This post is designed to walk you through those operators, and give you an overview of how to use them. Table 1 shows a list of the 7 aggregate operators.
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Saturday, July 12, 2008 12:47 AM

LINQ Farm: More on Set Operators

This is a second post on the LINQ Set operators, the first being published while LINQ was still in beta. As mentioned in the previous post , there are four LINQ set operators: Union , Intersect , Distinct and Except . Like the other 49 LINQ operators,
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Saturday, June 28, 2008 1:35 AM

LINQ Farm: Lambdas

Lambdas are a simple technology with an intimidating name. They sound like they are going to be difficult to understand, but in practice prove to be relatively trivial. LINQ has an almost inordinate need for its users to declare a large number of small,
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Saturday, June 28, 2008 1:17 AM

LINQ Farm: Extension Methods and Scoping

There are a few scoping rules that you must keep in mind when using extensions methods. Problems with scoping and extensions methods are rare, but when you encounter them they are quite vexing. An instance method will always be called before an extension
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Monday, June 16, 2008 3:37 PM

Cut Development Time: Use LINQ

When Microsoft employees talk about LINQ publicly, we haven't tended to emphasize how much time you can save by using it. This is perhaps because we don't want LINQ to be labeled as simply another RAD tool designed to save time. Nevertheless, it is becoming
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:04 PM

VCS Team Links for May 22, 2008

Rather than place the links to the most recent C# team content directly in Community Convergence , I have moved them here. This posts covers the last few weeks of posts from the C#, F# and related teams. From the C# Team Eric Lippert Method Hiding Apologia
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:36 PM

Charlie Speaking in Southern California

I will be presenting on C# and LINQ three times in Southern California next week at a series of user group meetings. The events will be held in the San Diego and the Los Angeles area . Lisa Feigenbaum will be flying down from Redmond with me, and she
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Monday, April 28, 2008 12:15 PM

LINQFarm: Understanding IEnumerable<T>, Part I

The IEnumerable<T> interface is a key part of LINQ to Objects and binds many of its different features together into a whole. This series of posts explains IEnumerable <T> and the role it plays in LINQ to Objects. If you hear people talking
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:57 AM

Community Convergence XLIII

Welcome to the forty-third issue of Community Convergence. The last few weeks have been consumed by the 2008 MVP Summit . During that annual event about 150 C# MVP s and many MVP s from other disciplines descend on Redmond for a technical summit accompanied
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Monday, April 07, 2008 4:49 PM

Charlie's Deck and Demos from his Essence of LINQ Talk

The sample programs and the slides from my Essence of LINQ talk are available on the Code Gallery LINQ Farm resource page. The LINQ Farm Resource Page The Downloads section of the page Direct Link to the Download
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Monday, March 31, 2008 12:19 AM

Upcoming Talks by Charlie

I will be giving a talk entitled The Essence of LINQ in Seattle and Milwaukee over the coming week. Wisconsin .NET User Group Date : Saturday, April 5, 2008 Event : Deeper in .NET 2008 Location : Milwaukee Marriott West Seattle Netda User Group : Date
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Sunday, March 30, 2008 5:46 PM

Community Convergence XLII

Welcome to the forty-second issue of Community Convergence. The last few weeks have found me working hard and late. We have had a successful internal C# community review, and that means I have been gathering statistics on all the projects we've been working
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Friday, March 28, 2008 11:09 PM

Anders Hejlsberg Film Festival: The C# and other VS Language Teams at the Movies

It's a bit rainy and snowy today in Redmond. What an excellent time to curl up by the fire and watch a movie! Here are some suggestions. Videos by Anders Anders Hejlsberg, Herb Sutter, Erik Meijer, Brian Beckman: Software Composability and the Future
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:01 PM

Preview of a C# 3.0 Book by Bruce Eckel and Jamie King

I mention the preview of their book that Jamie King and Bruce Eckel have made available as a free download on the MindView website in my latest Community Convergence post. However, I did not describe its contents, and so I thought I would take a moment
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:47 AM

Link to Everything: A List of LINQ Providers

I've recently updated the list of LINQ Providers found on my Links to LINQ page, accessible from the News section on the left of this blog. I'm sure there are other providers available. Feel free to write me or append a comment if you want to add to this
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