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 ...
Ars Technica

Any way to dynamically choose fields in a LINQ query expression?

So I've got this large dataset...call it t_Data, it's pretty easy to cut it up with a where condition in LINQ, but I want to be able to interrogate another dataset....call it q_Category (which ...
InfoQ

LINQ Aggregates in VB and C#

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...
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

Speed O/R Mapping with LINQ to SQL

LINQ to SQL continues to be a top contender in the .NET object/relational mapping tool market despite Microsoft's promotion of the Entity Framework as one of the "Pillars of SQL Server 2008: Dynamic ...
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

Selecting Groups in LINQ

Some questions can only be answered by organizing your data into groups and then finding groups that contain particular members or have particular properties. Once you've used LINQ to organize your ...