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Why is LINQ absent from debugger windows?
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 Read More...

Posted Wednesday, August 26, 2009 8:00 AM by Jared Parsons | 9 Comments

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Simulating Closures in PowerShell
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 Read More...

Posted Monday, February 02, 2009 8:00 AM by Jared Parsons | 0 Comments

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PowerShell LINQ: Take-Count and Take-While
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 Read More...

Posted Friday, January 16, 2009 8:00 AM by Jared Parsons | 2 Comments

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PowerShell LINQ: Skip-While
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 Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:00 AM by Jared Parsons | 2 Comments

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LINQ like functions for PowerShell: Skip-Count
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 Read More...

Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:00 AM by Jared Parsons | 2 Comments

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Mapping LINQ to F#
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 Read More...

Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2008 8:00 AM by Jared Parsons | 2 Comments

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