I was recently reading Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers’ Guide, Second Edition, and came across this piece of example Ruby code: [1,3,5,7].inject(0) {|sum, element| sum+element} -> 16 [1,3,5,7].inject(1) {|product, element| product*element} -> 105 Inject is a method which acts on an array by aggregating or accumulating the values within that array. It loops through the [...]

Quick tip: If you want to see the SQL generated by LINQ to SQL for a query or command, simply set the Log property of your generated DataContext class to an instance of a TextReader. If this is your code: using System; using System.Linq; using System.Data.Linq; namespace LINQtoSQLConsole { class Program { static void Main(string[] [...]

When you started using LINQ, did you think it looked like SQL? I did. The more I learned LINQ, the more I realized it wasn’t anything like SQL. Take grouping, for example. Because LINQ has a group by statement, and it looks like SQL, I assumed that the syntax for grouping in LINQ would be [...]

Scott Hanselman just posted his latest article in his weekly source code series. He shows various ways of producing the Fibonacci Sequence using various languages. I found it really interesting, for two reasons: I tried to do the C#3.0 one on my own after listening to a podcast about F#, and never could work it [...]

I am really getting into LINQ now! I think it’s fantastic. I recently wanted to develop a quick drop-down list in ASP.Net which allows a user to select a time of day from a list. The times are 15 minutes apart, so the list would look like this: … 08:00 08:15 08:30 08:45 09:00 … [...]