Visual Studio Magazine

To Think in LINQ

If you start "thinking in LINQ" you'll get more done with less code, and what you write will be simpler than using SQL. Switching to LINQ and the Entity Framework (EF) means that code you'll write for ...
Ars Technica

How to call C++ Functions from C# in Visual Studio 2013

Decimal 32, Decimal 64 and Decimal 128 (using Binary Integer Decimal (BID) encoding. My goal is to provide a visual way to do calculations on the various floating point and integer numeric types ...
InfoWorld

A Working Distinct LINQ Query in C#

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from ...
InfoWorld

How to use IEnumerable, ICollection, IList, and IQueryable in C#

The C# programming language provides excellent support for working with collections of data. C# includes several classes and interfaces that can help you query collections of data efficiently. The ...
Ars Technica

C#: How to properly handle exceptions that could be thrown in LINQ query results

I am not really even sure how to Google search for this, as I am not really sure how to formulate the question, so I'll try and give an example. I am using LINQ-XML to parse an input file that I want ...
Visual Studio Magazine

To Think in LINQ

Returning LINQ Results A LINQ query always returns a collection (which may have 0, 1 or many objects). However, the collections returned from LINQ+EF aren't exactly like other collections. For ...