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As the owner of the VB.Net portion of the overall debugging experience, I frequently hear the request from customers to add LINQ support into the Watch / Immediate and Locals window. Virtually every other type of expression is available in the debugger
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Previously I blogged about PowerShell’s lack of closure support within a script block. This presents a significant hurdle in developing a LINQ like DSL for powershell which I’ve been working on. Imagine the following syntax $a = from it in
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The Take pair of functions are very similar to the Skip functions . The Take expression does essentially the opposite of the Skip functions. Skip is useful for getting elements further down the pipeline. Take is used for getting elements
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Next up in the PowerShell LINQ series is SkipWhile . This LINQ function takes an enumerable instance and a predicate. The function will skip the elements in the enumerable while the predicate is true. The argument to the predicate is
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The PowerShell pipeline, is fairly similar to C#/VB’s LINQ. Both filter a group of elements through a series of transformations which produce a new series of elements. The devil is in the details of course but I’ll get to that in a future
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In my projects with F#, I often find that I know exactly what type of sequence transformation I want to run, yet I spend all of my time trying to find it!!! The problem is I’m used to query comprehensions in LINQ terminology. Select, Where
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