It is an alternative of LINQPad which is developed by Devart. It provides viewing of SQL, generated for LINQ to Entities, LINQ to NHibernate, LINQ to SQL, and LinqConnect, and profiling data access events for Entity Framework, NHibernate, LinqConnect, and LINQ to SQL. To test your LINQ queries it requires… Continue reading
LINQ extension methods which return a boolean value are called as Quantifiers. Some of them are as: All() Any() Contains() SequenceEqual()
LINQPad supports Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL, WCF Data Services, and Microsoft DataMarket Service out-of-the-box. It can also be used with others third-party drivers to support most of the .NET ORMs.
LINQPad is a most popular tool for testing LINQ queries. It is a standalone application developed by Joseph Albahari that allows you to execute LINQ queries or other C#, VB, F#, T-SQL statements. It can be downloaded at from www.linqpad.net. It can be used without visual studio.
An extension method is a static method of a static class that can be invoked like as an instance method syntax. Extension methods are used to add new behaviors to an existing type without altering. In extension method “this” keyword is used with the first parameter and the first parameter… Continue reading
The concept of lambda expression was introduced in C# 3.0. Typically, lambda expression is a more concise syntax of anonymous method. It is just a new way to write anonymous method. At compile time all the lambda expressions are converted into anonymous methods according to lambda expression conversion rules. The… Continue reading
The concept of anonymous method was introduced in C# 2.0. An anonymous method is an inline unnamed method in the code. It is created using the delegate keyword and doesn’t have its name and return type. In this way, an anonymous method has no name, optional parameters and return type;… Continue reading
var – var data type was introduced with C# 3.0. It is used to declare implicitly typed local variable means it tells the compiler to figure out the type of the variable at compile time. A var variable must be initialized at the time of declaration. For Example: var i… Continue reading
System.Linq namespace is necessary for writing LINQ queries and to implement it.
There are following three ways to write LINQ Query: Query Expression (Query Syntax) : Query expression syntax is like as SQL query syntax with just a few minor deviations. The result of a query expression is a query object, which is usually a collection of type IEnumerable<T> or IQueryable<T>. This syntax… Continue reading