InfoWorld

A Working Distinct LINQ Query in C#

As I mentioned Monday and in my Visual Studio 2008 review, I've been struggling with the finer points of LINQ queries. In a talkback comment to my review, "CSharper" pointed me at one solution to ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Supporting LINQ Queries Calling Your Methods

You have a method like this that returns a collection of premium Customer objects: Public Function GetPremiumCustomers() As List(of Customer) Dim db As New dbContextObject Return From c In ...
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 ...
InfoWorld

How to work with Parallel LINQ in C#

Language Integrated Query, also known as LINQ, is a query execution pipeline that adds query capabilities to languages targeted at the managed environment of .Net. Parallel LINQ, or PLINQ, is a query ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Reduce Trips to the Database Service with EF.E's Future Queries

One way to slow down your application is to make multiple trips to the database. Here's a way to cut those trips in half (at least) and it has to do with the EntityFramework.Extended library. In an ...