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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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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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Script blocks are a concise way of representing an expression or statement group in Powershell. It’s the C#/F#/VB lambda equivalent for PowerShell. One difference between C#/F#/VB lambda expressions and a scriptblock is the lack of lexical
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Script blocks are a powershell construct for storing an expression or group of statements inside an expression. It’s the equivalent of a C#/F#/VB Lamba expression. Recently I needed to use a script block but found I had forgotten how to read
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One action I find frustrating in C# is where a particular action needs to be taken based off of the type of a particular object. Ideally I would like to solve this with a switch statement but switch statements only support constant expressions in C# so
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It's often useful to ensure that actions occur on specific threads, in particular event handlers. Take Windows Forms for instance where all operations on a Control must occur on the thread it was created on. Typically this is not a problem
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One of the limitations of C# type inference is that you cannot use it to infer the type of a lambda expression. For example, the following code will not compile var f = () => 4; Normally this is not too much of an issue because you can just explicitly
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One item you strive to avoid when you design and implement a feature is unexpected behavior. Unfortunately there is one case we couldn't avoid with Lambda's in VB9. I just ran into the this problem when coding up a handler. I wanted
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