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A Major Silverlight PITA, and Two Annoying 3.0 Limitations

Fri, 30 May 2008 20:46:03 GMT

Did you know Silverlight implements the Visible property as an enumeration not a Boolean? That leads the author to find two frustrating .Net 3.0 limitations: No ByRef Extension Methods, and no ByRef Automatic Properties.

RemoteLINQ - How to make your LINQ span the globe

Fri, 23 May 2008 14:46:02 GMT

After reading John Skeet's blog about Generating Mandelbrot images using PLINQ (Parallel LINQ) the author got the idea to build his own LINQ extension. Instead of just splitting the work across processors like PLINQ does, RemoteLINQ splits it across multiple machines.

Performance: LINQ to XML vs XmlDocument vs XmlReader

Thu, 01 May 2008 20:37:04 GMT

Compares speeds of XML parsing techniques. Ultimately XmlReader beats LINQ to XML in almost every run except for very small XML documents. What's interesting though is how the numbers scale between text encodings.

How System.Linq.Where() Really Works

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:50:27 GMT

The new Where() extension method in Linq to Objects is extremely powerful. It also has some unexpected behavior. Do you know how it really works?

Custom Entity Classes Using LINQ to SQL Part 1 - DataObjects

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:01:02 GMT

Want to use LINQ without using th LINQ to SQL Classes file? Maybe even add it into an existing object model you already have set up?

Deferred Execution, the Elegance of LINQ

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:40:09 GMT

Exeplains what LINQ's deferred execution is, and more importantly how to use it effectively.