Programming By A Tool

Ok so with MVC comes the use of Routes which calls in the need to compare request values to see which route to use. Now before I even bother with that headache (Although it’s getting better AND will be a post) I ran into a situation where I would have to check a passed in [...]

Get the total count of pages. | Get the real page number. | Using Skip and Take to Page | The Actual Paging Controls Ok so the last two posts have been arguably useless, maybe more so than anything else here, but they were somewhat needed because now I am going to show how to [...]

I don’t like using the query syntax when it comes to Linq to AnythingButTheKitchenSink . Not sure why. Mostly, I guess, is that I seem to have a liking for Funcs and Actions to the point of stupidity and although you can work them into the query syntax, it just doesn’t look right. Now with [...]

Say what? Ok this is simple, and probably useless for most people but I thought I’d post it anyhow. Basically, say you have a huge list of something and you need to split it into smaller lists of something. This might be the case if you want to use parameterized SQL or something like HQL [...]

Today I was writing out an example of why the extension methods are for the most part better to use than the querying language. Go figure I would find a case where that’s not entirely true. Say you are using these three funcs: Func<User, String> userName = user => user.UserName; Func<User, Boolean> userIDOverTen = user [...]

So ran into this today and the answer was actually a lot easier to understand than I thought it would be. Say you want to order a list of objects by a number. Seems simple. Now if you have been paying attention you would know I like using Funcs. Func<SomeClass, Int32> orderByNumber = currentClass => [...]

Still on the readability thing, but there was a second argument in the post that inspired now what is three posts of my own here. The question was should you use Linq based on people saying it’s more readable, therefore just making it syntax sugar. foreach(Item current in itemList) { itemNameList.Add(current.Name); } Versus var itemNameList [...]

Quick thought too about which to use due to readability: var you = from factor in seansAwesomeness select new FactorLite { Amount = amount; }; or you could do: Func<Person, FactorLite> selectFactorLite = currentFactor => new FactorLite { Amount = currentFactor.Amount }; seansAwesomeness.Select(selectFactorLite); I guess it’s a matter of preference, but the first seems way [...]

So a couple of posts I read recently have been about readability of Linq, more so Linq query expressions versus the Linq methods. Don’t know what I mean? Expression: var result = from knowledge in Sean select knowledge.Linq; As opposed to: var result = Sean.Select(knowledge => knowledge.Linq); Personally I would replace the lambda expression with [...]

Now this is kind of dangerous to do since there is no compile time check (Like most things set in markup) but say you want to sort a collection, using the Linq extension methods, but you don’t know what you what to sort on at any given time. On top of that, you have a [...]