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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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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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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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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:54 AM

LINQ Farm Seed: Using the Expression Tree Visualizer

The Visual Studio 2008 CSharp samples include several valuable tools that LINQ developers can use to help expedite the development process. One of the is the Expression Tree Visualizer. This tool works in both Visual Studio Express and the other versions
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 1:08 PM

LINQ Farm Seed 02: Aggregate Operator Part II

LINQ Farm Seeds are short posts designed to be read in a few minutes. In the previous seed we used the first overload of the C# 3.0 LINQ Aggregate operator to sum a list of numbers. In this post we'll work with a list of words. The code we will look at
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 12:00 PM

LINQ Farm Seed I: Aggregate Operator Part I

LINQ Farm Seeds are short posts designed to be read in a few minutes. The first seed showed how to list in alphabetical order all the operators used in LINQ to Objects. At the top of the list one found the Aggregate operator. The LINQ Aggregation operator
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Monday, February 04, 2008 10:46 PM

LINQ Farm Seed 0: Operators in LINQ to Objects

LINQ Farm Seeds are short posts, designed to be read in a few minutes. This one covers enumerating the operators used in LINQ to Objects. The source code for this project is available in the LINQ Farm on Code Gallery. The LINQ to Objects operators are
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Thursday, January 31, 2008 12:49 AM

Expression Tree Basics

Newcomers to LINQ often find expression trees difficult to grasp. In this post I hope to show that the subject is not quite as difficult as it might appear at first. Any reader who has an intermediate level understanding of LINQ should find the material
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