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Manipulating Objects in a Collection with LINQ
I was chatting with a co-worker about using LINQ to replace for-each loops. More specifically, we were discussing how to modify the properties of items in a collection or a subset of the collection. I...
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Making Enumerable Collections LINQ-Queryable
LINQ is one of the greatest things that’s happened to Windows programming. I love it, and I use it all the time. Occasionally, you’ll run into an enumerable collection class that can’t be queried with...
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Add Additional References in LINQPad
LINQPad is one of my favorite development tools. I use it all the time to do quick tests to verify thoughts or discussions that I’m having with peers. It’s terrific for building snippets for email and...
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Joins in LINQ
The scenario: you have two related collections of objects, and you need to smush ‘em together into a collection of combined records. It’s easy to do with LINQ’s Join method, but Join can seem a little...
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Collection Lookups
Yesterday, I was discussing a method with a co-worker where I suggested we loop through a collection of records and, for each record, do another retrieval-by-ID via LINQ. He brought up that this would...
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Find Duplicate Database Entries with LINQPad
A co-worker and I were chatting about a code problem he was having that was likely due to duplicate entries in a database table. He thought that records in the table were unique based on two columns,...
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Group Strings Using LINQ and Regular Expressions
I was working on a problem yesterday where I needed to combine strings that were the same except for one part. Here’s a simplified version of the problem: Input Array: "Adam likes apples." "Adam likes...
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Simple .DistinctBy Extension
LINQ’s Distinct extension has largely been a disappointment to me. Sure, it’s nice when I’m working with a collection of integers, but more often than not, I’m working with a collection of objects and...
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