Simplifying Visio Automation with C# 3.0, Linq, and delegates

re: Simplifying Visio Automation with C# 3.0, Linq, and delegates

Chris — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:07:26 GMT

Hi Saveen,

Which bits are Linq related?

And this syntax looks new to me: "shape => ..." Is that 3.0 stuff? (starting to look like C++ run away!)

Cheers,

Chris

re: Simplifying Visio Automation with C# 3.0, Linq, and delegates

saveenr — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:03:38 GMT

The Linq-specific parts are ".Select" and the ".ToList" extension methods. I didn't exploit a lot of Linq in this example, I'll have a future post which shows a more interesting usage.

The "=>" is not a part of Linq, but makes using Linq that much easier by providing a terse syntax for lambda expressions - essentially it's much easier to create delegates.