Tutorial Reading A Text File Using LINQ | One .Net Way

onedotnetway.com — At times us developers have to deal with delimited text files in our applications. Such files have been around since yonks and I often come across data import/export tasks where delimited files are used. Till now the common way in .NET has been to read each line and then extract data using some sort of creative string functions within for loops. But there is another way by using LINQ. In this tutorial I will show you how to use LINQ to read such data. By the end of tutorial you will appreciate how easy and logical it is to use LINQ for reading data from delimited text files. read more...

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Exam 70-502 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Windows Presentation Foundati

onedotnetway.com — Back in may I posted Part 1 of this series on my old blog. Looking at the statistics it turned out to be one of the highly visited post. Recently I also had a comment asking me when I was publishing other parts of study links. Continuing the same trend here is the second part of this series. read more...

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StyleCop Tutorial | One .Net Way

onedotnetway.com — StyleCop is a source analysis tool for C#. It can be used for analysing source code as opposed to compiled assemblies which is the area for FxCop. StyleCop is currently in version 4.2 and can be downloaded here. In this tutorial I will show you how to use StyleCop. read more...

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Different Ways Of Retrieving Data From Collections

onedotnetway.com — C# as a language has matured over years. We have come a long way from the first version of C# to the current which incorporates LINQ. Here is an example I recently used in a training session. My objective was to show students how we can retrieve items from a collection based on a certain criteria in different ways. read more...

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LINQ To SQL Tutorial | One .NET Way

onedotnetway.com — With .NET Framework 3.5 Microsoft released Language Integrated Query aka LINQ. LINQ enables developers to query data sources using a query like syntax with both C# and VB.NET. These data sources can be collections, SQL Server databases, XML, DataSets etc. Other than what is supplied by Microsoft, LINQ is also extensible. This means that you can query data sources beyond what Microsoft ships. Examples of such implementations are LINQ To Flickr, LINQ To Amazon, LINQ to Google etc. In this article I will show you how you can use LINQ To SQL to perform CRUD operations on a SQL Server database. read more...

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First Look At Microsoft Cloud Computing

deepakkapoor.net — Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Initiatives are taking shape. I expect a big bang launch somewhere around PDC 2008. Earlier I blogged about the whiff I got about Microsoft’s offering for developers in the cloud by looking at the list of PDC 2008 sessions. Today I will look at what it takes to get started with Microsoft Online Services. read more...

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Proof: Alexa Does Not Work

deepakkapoor.net — I have always had my doubts on Alexa. I somehow was never convinced about its ranking system. Today I found what could be the mother of all malfunctions. I went to Alex to look at my rankings and I saw this: read more...

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LINQPad For Writing LINQ Code

deepakkapoor.net — Joseph Albahari who co-authored C# 3.0 in a Nutshell has written a fantastic tool for writing LINQ queries called LINQPad. Lately I have been working extensively with LINQ and I often feel the need to write some code quickly to test my query. read more...

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