Articles by merlin981 (Article: 1, Technical Blogs: 18)

Using Themer To Skin Forms and Controls

I know the title is a bit long, but it descriptive of the problem. Recently I had need to retrieve a listing of files and folders given a root path. All worked well, until I tested on Vista and Windows 7 machines. When trying to browse the "Users" folder, I kept getting access denied errors and no

In this article, I will cover how to access data in SQL Server Compact databases (.sdf files) using the new development technologies such as LINQ.

I was recently asked to helpwith a LINQ To SQL query where the resulting T-SQL query was tohave CASE statements. Having CASE statements in T-SQL queries is acommon scenario but how do we it in LINQ To SQL? The solution is simple and straight-forward. As you will see below, using C#'s "Immed

There are many little tips and tricks for LINQ to SQL which can make our lives easier, or improve the speed and efficiency of the generated code. Below are several tips and tricks I have found during my time as a LINQ developer.*Note: Some of these tips are for querying directly from the table.

I was recently asked to helpwith a LINQ To SQL query where the resulting T-SQL query was tohave CASE statements. Having CASE statements in T-SQL queries is acommon scenario but how do we it in LINQ To SQL? The solution is simple and straight-forward. As you will see below, using C#'s "I

Twitter feeds are provided in RSS XML format. This makes it very easy for us to parse out the information we want from a feed using LINQ to XML. For example, if we want to grab the message and date of each Twitter entry, we could use something like this: public class Twitter {     public str

The&lsquo;GroupBy&rsquo; feature in LINQ is amazing and very powerful. When you use a&lsquo;GroupBy&rsquo; in LINQ, internally it calls an extension method whichreturns a sequence of System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable)>)>)>)TheGroupBy<(Of <(TSource, T

How to use the LINQ GroupBy feature.

Twitter feeds are provided in RSS XML format. This makes it very easy for us to parse out the information we want from a feed using LINQ to XML.

A simple example to show you how to GroupBy Multiple Values using LINQ

I've been doing a lot of mult-threading work, recently, using the standard Thead class, the Worker Queue, and the new PLINQ (Parallel LINQ). The problem with most of the built-in generic collections (Queue, List, Dictionary, etc), is that they are not thread safe.

There are many little tips and tricks for LINQ to SQL which can make our lives easier, or improve the speed and efficiency of the generated code. Below are several tips and tricks I have found during my time as a LINQ developer. *Note: Some of these tips are for querying directly from the table.

Sometimes you have a list, and you need to return a single element from the list. There are several ways to get the element to return. Below are two ways using LINQ with Lambda expressions.Consider the following class: 1: public class Person 2: { 3: public strin

In thisarticle, I will cover how to access data in SQL Server Compactdatabases (.sdf file) using new development technologies such as LINQ.LINQ is the new initiative of Microsoft to support Object-RelationalMapping concepts and design patterns. LINQ provides a full type-safetyand compile-time

Often we have to get a count of duplicate items in a list. An easy way to do this is to group the list on the property we want to count, then use LINQ's GroupBy's Count feature. Below is a quick example using an employee list.  private static void Main() {     List empLi

Sometimes you have a list, and you need to return a single element from the list. There are several ways to get the element to return. Below are two ways using LINQ with Lambda expressions.Consider the following class: 1: public class Person 2: { 3: public strin

Here's a simple example to show you how to GroupBy Multiple Valuesusing LINQ. In this example, I am grouping by Age and Sex to find thecount of people who have the same age and sex.C#public partial class LINQ : System.Web.UI.Page{    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventAr

I've been doing a lot of mult-threading work, recently, using the standard Thead class, the Worker Queue, and the new PLINQ (Parallel LINQ). The problem with most of the built-in generic collections (Queue, List, Dictionary, etc), is that they are not thread safe.I created a library of