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• Adding sets of items to arbitrary collections using extensions methods

  Don't you just hate the fact that only some collection classes provide a possibility too add more than one item at once (such as List<T> does offer via AddRange). This means that often I'm writing this kind of code: var q = <some cool Read More... Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 6:43 PM by Raimondb | 3 Comments Filed under: .NET, Linq, C# 3.0

• Using Lambda statement blocks with LINQ May CTP

  The new LINQ CTP also support lamba statement block, instead of only expressions. Still only expressions are compilable to expression treeds though (hence the name *expression* trees..) Anyway, this offers the opportunity to do away with anonymous method Read More... Posted Friday, June 23, 2006 7:04 PM by Raimondb | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, PDC 2005, Linq, C# 3.0

• Restoring Smart Tags in the C# IDE after installing LINQ Preview May 2006

  When you have installed the latest LINQ preview and have installed the Language Service, you wil notice that all of a sudden all the smart tags and refactoring commands stop working. The first time I solved this by reinstalling VS (somewhat harsh and Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 10:54 PM by Raimondb | 3 Comments Filed under: .NET, PDC 2005, Linq, C# 3.0

• Info Support IT Seminar WinFx Slides

  Recently I did a talk about WinFx for a group of students that were attending our IT Seminar. I this seminar we highlighted topics on both the Java and the .NET side of the world. My talk was about WinFx, presenting an overview of all the new Technologies Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:34 PM by Raimondb | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET, Linq, C# 3.0, WWF, WPF, WCF

• DevDays 2006 Slides & Demos

  We have a saying in holland, and it's “better late than never” and boy does this apply here. I promised to put the samples and slides of my talk at the DevDays online. I've been having some difficulties with my ftp site, but now it's Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:22 PM by Raimondb | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Linq, C# 3.0

• Speaking at Devdays 2006 : C# 3.0 and Linq

  As you might already have noticed, I'll be speaking at DevDays 2006. I will be doing a talk on LINQ and the underlying features that have been added to C# 3.0 to make this programming paradigm possible. If you are interested on some info up-front, Read More... Posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 11:12 PM by Raimondb | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Linq, C# 3.0

• LINQ Preview updated to VS2005 RTM

  If you are (just as I am) impressed with LINQ and think I will fundamentally change the way we write programs, you just need to get the refresh that is available to make it work on the release version of Visual Studio 2005. Get it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/future/linq Read More... Posted Saturday, October 29, 2005 12:48 PM by Raimondb | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, PDC 2005, Linq, C# 3.0

• Some more on Linq and C# 3.0 language extensions

  I've been following various sessions today at the PDC on Linq and the C# 3.0 language extensions that are the base foundation to make this work. As the LINQ framework is really cool, I think that goes maybe even more for the language enhancements. Read More... Posted Thursday, September 15, 2005 2:22 AM by Raimondb | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, PDC 2005, Linq, C# 3.0