Generic delegates and lambda expressions underpin LINQ. If you’ve been struggling to get your arms around these new concepts, this post should help demystify matters for you.
Of course, there are a a host of other new .NET language features that enable LINQ as well. These include extension methods, type inference, anonymous types, [...]
Lambda expressions are a powerful tool to writing quick, concise code. They can be used in numerous situations, most notably in conjuction with LINQ statements.
A lambda expression is an anonymous function that can contain expressions and statements, and can be used to create delegates or expression tree types.
All lambda expressions use the lambda operator =>, [...]
When using Linq to objects, you will quickly feel the need to pass some parameters from a method to another but it’s not so easy because each Linq method is not calling the following one. In a Linq sequence, each method is using the result computed by the previous one. So, local contexts are not [...]
Can you guess what the output of the following program is?
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
namespace Lambda
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var strings [...]
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