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2 Oct 2009   Updated: 2 Oct 2009   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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Thread safe generic queue class
Database Development
SQL Server
12 May 2009   Updated: 12 May 2009   Rating: 3.86/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 2.70
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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.
Desktop Programming
Windows Forms
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Using Themer To Skin Forms and Controls
Programming Languages
C#
2 Apr 2009   Updated: 2 Apr 2009   Rating: 4.50/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.15
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In this post, you will learn how to read Twitter feeds with LINQ to XML
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How to use LINQ GroupBy
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Thread safe generic Queue class
SQL
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How to create T-SQL CASE statements with LINQ to SQL
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Several tips and tricks I have found during my time as a LINQ developer
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How to access data in SQL Server Compact databases (.sdf file) using new development technologies such as LINQ
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Several tips and tricks I have found during my time as a LINQ developer

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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.
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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
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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.
Programming Languages
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How to use the LINQ GroupBy feature.
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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.
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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.
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A simple example to show you how to GroupBy Multiple Values using LINQ
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I was recently asked to helpwith a LINQ To SQL query where the resulting T-SQL query was to have CASE statements. Having CASE statements in T-SQL queries is acommon scenario but how do we it in LINQ To SQL?

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