Comments on: Using LinqPad to Create a Time-Selector Drop-Down List

By: davidk

davidk — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:04:27 +0000

Great ideas. I liked the step parameter idea:

from hour in 0.To(23)
from minute in 0.To(59, 15)
select string.Format(“{0:00}:{1:00}”, hour, minute)

public static IEnumerable To(this int first, int last, int step) {
return Enumerable.Range(first, (last – first + 1)/step).Select( i => i * step);
}

By: Figment Engine

Figment Engine — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:19:11 +0000

used your To method to create range operations for characters. thanks!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:16:42 +0000

I like this, but I think it would be better to use a variation of To that has a step parameter like this:

from minute in 0.To(59, 15)

It’s much better perf-wise etc.

By: Revisiting the Alphabet Range with the latest .NET - Frank-Leonardo Quednau

Revisiting the Alphabet Range with the latest .NET - Frank-Leonardo Quednau — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:09:05 +0000

[...] Richard Bushnell was showing off how old problems can be implemented very concise with LINQ he also made use of an extension method to the int [...]

By: Frank Quednau

Frank Quednau — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:28:47 +0000

Very nice, methinks. There is massive potential in this technology, both in dealing with collections (it’s becoming so concise) and dealing with mapping to domains beyond .NET objects. Apart from LINQ your “To” extension method inspired me to revisit my alphabet range object. Cheers!