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April 2006 - Posts

Much of the querying functionality present in LINQ and the associated techologies leverage a new language feature known as Extension methods. With an extension method you can "extend" any type simply by adding the "this" keyword before the first parameter Read More
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On Monday I presented LINQ 101 to the Atlanta Dotnet User Group. There was a good reception for the presentation and around 60 people attended. I was surpised that 1/4 of them were already familiar with LINQ. I look forward to doing a 200 level talk at Read More
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I did my first 2 talks on LINQ this past week. On Saturday I presented for the Alabama Code Camp. Unfortunately, I was on the last slot of the day and a number of people left early. Additionally, I was up against Doug Turnure's Memory Management talk Read More
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A recent inquiry on the DLinq forum (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=355342&SiteID=1) asked why the .ToArray method was not being recognized in DLinq. Actually, the issue they were seeing was a message that their array object Read More
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I’m in the process of finalizing a number of presentations on LINQ. I will be posting the demos and slides soon. As a teaser, here’s a quick snippet from the XLinq demo. I begin by showing the new functional construction syntax for XLINQ. Read More
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