LINQ in Action - THE LINQ book

When developing C# programs in the functional programming style, you often need to dump out a collection to the console.  Object dumper is a great tool to use for this.  It is a sample that far too few developers know about. A functional transform typically takes the form of successive transformations: transform collection a => ...

The response to my previous blog post has been very interesting to me.  And it has, to a very large extent, matched my own experience. I have seen four basic scenarios where folks use LINQ: Using LINQ to Objects (and LINQ to XML, which is really just LINQ to Objects), primarily using the extension methods, and the so-called ‘method ...

I had an interesting conversation with my nephew the other day.  He is a very bright CS student working as a summer intern at a software company (not Microsoft).  He is programming in C# using Visual Studio 2008.  I asked him if developers at his company were using LINQ, and he said, ''No, that the folks in charge had basically ...

In our family, we have a rule – on Mother's day, my wife basically gets to set the agenda for the entire weekend.  And, as appropriate, she doesn't have to lift a finger around the house.  And on Father's day, the same rule applies for me.  But on all other weekends, normal rules apply.  This year, because my wife was out of ...