Tag Archives: Linq

Create An X Delimited String From A Char List Using Linq Aggregate

A quick example of how to use the Aggregate method to create a string of delimited members, or in this case characters. You might wonder why this example, or at least you should. It’s true, the character list to delimited string is pretty useless, but some idiot from where I work needed it. [TestMethod] public [...]

Leave a comment Continue Reading →

Linq and Stack… Take versus Pop

So this might be filed under “Who f—ing cares” but I thought it was somewhat interesting. If you’ve ever used a Stack, you should be familiar with Pop and Peek. If not, here’s a little diddy from a guy named diddy. Actually that’s a lie. I have no affiliation Sean “Puffy” “Puff Daddy” “P Diddy” [...]

Leave a comment Continue Reading →

Dictionary Index Lookup Vs Contains Key Vs List Contains Vs Linq… Speed Test/Texas Tornado Match

Ok so with MVC comes the use of Routes which calls in the need to compare request values to see which route to use. Now before I even bother with that headache (Although it’s getting better AND will be a post) I ran into a situation where I would have to check a passed in [...]

Leave a comment Continue Reading →

Paging and the Entity Framework, Skip, and Take Part 3

Get the total count of pages. | Get the real page number. | Using Skip and Take to Page | The Actual Paging Controls Ok so the last two posts have been arguably useless, maybe more so than anything else here, but they were somewhat needed because now I am going to show how to [...]

Leave a comment Continue Reading →

Linq Join Extension Method and How to Use It…

I don’t like using the query syntax when it comes to Linq to AnythingButTheKitchenSink . Not sure why. Mostly, I guess, is that I seem to have a liking for Funcs and Actions to the point of stupidity and although you can work them into the query syntax, it just doesn’t look right. Now with [...]

4 Comments Continue Reading →