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Note for purists: This post only speaks for “LINQ predicates”, not – although closely related to - the mathematic concept of a predicate as defined by Weisstein, Eric W. "Predicate." From MathWorld --A Wolfram Web Resource. http://mathworld...
By now, most – if not all – readers of my blog will be familiar with this C# 3.0 and VB 9.0 feature called Local Variable Type Inference or Implicitly Typed Local Variables. The idea is simple: since the compiler knows (and hence can infer) type information...
While preparing for another one of my posts, soon to be published, I received the following: What can one do when observing such a message? Since watching a grown man cry is both a pathetic and embarrassing situation, downloading the language specification...
Collecting a few of my posts for easy quick reference: Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus – Introduction Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus - XML Support Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus - LINQ Queries Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus - Object Initializers Visual...
I just released the RTM bits of LINQSQO on CodePlex . This project was one of my first LINQ-related ones and goes back to the early PDC 05 days where LINQ was first shown to the world. The project contains a custom implementation of the LINQ Standard...
Welcome back to the Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus blog series. In this post, we'll cover a feature unique to Visual Basic: XML Support . In VB 9.0, XML has become a first class citizen of the language, meaning you can use XML literals to build XML...
Welcome back to the Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus blog series. In this post, we'll cover Runtime Agility . Before we continue, I have to warn you: this is a HUGE feature even though it hasn't been covered that much yet in the blogosphere. Historically...
Welcome back to the Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus blog series. In this post, we'll cover Relaxed delegates , a small but useful feature that boosts developer convenience. In VB 8.0 the use of delegates was very strict concerning the methods supported...
Welcome back to the Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus blog series. In this post, we'll cover Friend Assemblies , something that has been supported by C# (and the .NET Framework more generally) since Whidbey ( see here ). What this feature allows you...
Welcome back to the Visual Basic 9.0 Feature Focus blog series. In this post, we'll cover the If Ternary Operator , which is a true ternary operator, something that Visual Basic has been lacking in previous releases (contrast to C-based languages'...
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