May 2011 Entries
Woke up this morning and decided to finally stop by the Alumni Lounge. I had been meaning to check it out, but I had been so busy with such great presentations and hanging out in the Blogger’s Lounge that I never got around to it. I truly wish I had stopped in sooner! There’s nice bottles of soda with glasses for ice so you can have it nice and cold as well as a hot beverage bar. And this morning there were delicious cinnamon rolls (the nemesis of my beltline, alas!) and other treats and candies. ......
This is a quick presentation I threw together for a group of developers who requested a quick primer on using lambda expressions and the more common LINQ extension methods. It seemed like a good general knowledge presentation so I decided to upload it to slideshare and reference it here as well. This is not meant to be a comprehensive discussion of everything that lambda expressions and LINQ have to offer, but is just sort of a very basic introduction to help those less familiar with reading and ......
Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my past little wonders post can be found here. Today I’m going to look at 5 different ways of combining two sequences together using LINQ extension methods. For the purposes of this discussion, I will split these 5 methods into homogeneous and heterogeneous methods (for lack of better terms). “Homogeneous” combinations ......
Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. Today we are going to examine the LINQ set operations that are part of the IEnumerable<T> extension methods. Now, most of the time when people think of set operations they think of the math or logic classes they are usually taught in, but really these LINQ methods have a much larger appeal and applicability than just math ......