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Fri, Mar 18 2011 22:40

Edulinq - the e-book

I'm pleased to announce that I've made a first pass at converting the blog posts in the Edulinq series into e-books. I'm using Calibre to convert to PDF and e-book format. I still have a way to go, but they're at least readable. The Kindle...
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Thu, Mar 25 2010 14:41

Just how lazy are you?

I've been reviewing chapter 10 of C# in Depth, which is about extension methods. This is where I start introducing some of the methods in System.Linq.Enumerable, such as Where and Reverse. I introduce a few pieces of terminology in callouts - and...
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Wed, Feb 10 2010 21:56

Optimisations in LINQ to Objects

(Edited on February 11th, 2010 to take account of a few mistakes and changes in the .NET 4.0 release candidate.) I've just been fiddling with the first appendix of C# in Depth, which covers the standard query operators in LINQ, and describes a few...
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Sat, Jan 16 2010 20:13

First encounters with Reactive Extensions

I've been researching Reactive Extensions for the last few days, with an eye to writing a short section in chapter 12 of the second edition of C# in Depth. (This is the most radically changed chapter from the first edition; it will be covering LINQ...
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Tue, Sep 9 2008 8:18

Logging enumeration flow

I'm currently reading Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008 by Joe Rattz and yesterday I came across a claim about Enumerable.Intersect which didn't quite ring true. I consulted MSDN and the documentation is exactly the same as the book...
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Tue, Dec 18 2007 0:23

C# in Depth: All chapters available in MEAP!

Rather excitingly, all the chapters of C# in Depth are now available for early access . The following chapters have recently been added: 10: Extension methods Without extension methods, LINQ just couldn't work in an elegant form. Extension methods...
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Fri, Nov 2 2007 1:25

I love LINQ: Simplifying a tedious task

As mentioned in my previous post, I've been putting together the code samples for C# in Depth. Now, these are spread across several projects in a few solutions. They're referred to in the book as things like "Listing 6.2" but I've...
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Wed, Oct 3 2007 21:12

LINQ to Silliness: Generating a Mandelbrot with parallel potential

I've been writing about LINQ recently, and in particular I've written a small amount about Parallel LINQ . (Don't get excited - it's only about a page, just to mention it as a sort of "meta-provider" for LINQ.) I was wondering...
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