Language INtegrated Query (LINQ) is a Microsoft .NET Framework component that adds native data querying capabilities to .NET languages.

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Optimize Linq search query with multiple if statements

I have a search function in my class which checks various class property values for null or certain values and queries the database based on those properties. This how my function looks like now: ...
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Getting price for one firm by week

I've a lot of data whit prices of a product from different firms by week. I've a class named WeekPrice witch contains a list of ...
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Skip by Id on large list

This is in ASP.NET MVC, but that shouldn't make a difference. I have a large number of rows in my database for Songs. ...
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Operator-based switch for a database query filter

I am currently working on a method, that can search based on a value and an operator. Currently I check which operator was supplied to the the method in a switch, and do operations accordingly to it. ...
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passing model to _layout.cshtml

I have login page that looks like It has a ViewModelBase & a ViewModel as ...
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OnStartApplicationsCommand function

The foreach loop seems ridiculously lengthy and I am trying to get rid of it altogether is possible. But there are a lot of things happening in there which I need ...
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Distinct List of attribute values from XML, using a pre-defined set of attribute names

I have an XML stream that looks like the following (attribute and node quantity , and node depth reduced for demonstration purposes.) ...
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LINQ query for a user's submitted time-off requests

What is a better way to create this select statement? I tried to just select 'u' and 'us', but the object properties were not accessible when I did this. ...
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Using Linq instead of multiple foreach loops

A project I'm working on often has lists within lists within lists etc. The original author often uses complicated linq expressions, but when adapting them I mostly get hopelessly bogged down and ...
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Tracking Entity Changes (not EF)

So, I kept refactoring my Sage300 API wrapper - I wanted the client code to feel just like using Entity Framework - this is the closest I got to it: ...
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Building expression tree with multiple OrElse

I am creating a way for users to filter results based on start and end values. An example of this would be: ...
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Paginating blog posts from SQL server using nested LINQ statements

I made an ASP.NET MVC application using Entity Framework for code-first migrations to the SQL Server database. I also use Unity (DI/IoC) for managing the services and repositories. I made an overview ...
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Method or helper function to return objects from EntityFramework with Linq [closed]

The following code reads from Microsoft EntityFramework 6.0 domain model and returns the single view_patient object. The view_patient object is defined in the backend database and uploaded to the ...
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Converting from strings to byte arrays with LINQ in C#

I'm taking in a string of input from the command line, and when prefixed by 0o or 8# interpreting it as an octal string. I'd ...
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Struct implementation of immutable Maybe<T> monad

I have developed the following implementation of an immutable struct Maybe<T> monad for use in my game project; as an ...
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Convert reader to list of class

Class Student { Int studentId, List<ClassB> Books, Bool IsPassed } Class Book { Int bookId, List<int> pages } I am creating a list ...
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Eager Loading Deeply into a Model with a Collection Property Whose Type is Inherited

Visual Studio generated this great route for me, where I can load an entity: ...
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Get a list of inherited classes using Linq to Entities

I have inherited classes in Entity Framework. I have a base class (ArticleBase) and two classes Review and Article which inherit from it. I am returning a list of the latest Articles and Reviews ...
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How to find contradiction in order of items in multiple sequences

Suppose you have several sequences: A: 1 2 3 4 5 B: 2 4 5 C: 2 1 3 4 5 D: 3 2 Here, some pairs of list contradicts each other, because they ...
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Linq-to-Sage Implementation

Following-up on my last question where I wrapped the Sage API with a familiar IRepository interface, I decided to push the abstraction a step further, and... ...
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LINQ statements that aggregate sums from a List of objects

I'm packaging data for use in a JavaScript charting library that expects a somewhat odd structure of data in which there is an array of labels and an array of ...
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Optimizing LINQ with SelectMany aggregation

I have the following query which appears to be a bottleneck in my app: ...
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Medical appointment book history

This code correctly returns a View_appointment. Is there a better way to accomplish this with using left joins and unions? I'm trying to learn Linq a little bit ...
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Pull back records that include child records

I am trying to pull back records that include child records for the View I'm putting together. Right now I have a working Linq statement, but it's big, and I think I could make it cleaner. ...
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Categorize episode-file names - Follow up

This is a follow up to this question. I have implemented changes to the code as they were suggested in the previous question and have made a few changes of my own. But it has been mentioned that the ...
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Convex envelope algorithm of random set of points

This is my "naive" implementation of a convex hull algorithm. By naive I mean that I am not using any of the advanced algorithms that exist to solve this problem. ...
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Give me thy name, I'll invoke thee

This generic function invokes a property of a given object by name: ...
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Using LINQ to output SQL data from two tables into XML

I am very new to this. Hope someone could help me suggest how to improve the code. I have two tables where I need to get the SQL data and output it into XML format. I am using LINQ method. Below how ...
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Joining datatables to create a new datatable

I am joining datatables to create a new datatable: ...
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Query Builder pattern with use of FluentApi

Recently, I've come up with an idea of building a custom query builder combine with FluentApi. Expected usage: ...
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Remove from list value where date less than max date value

How can I improve this code? ...
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Control DataTable to CSV toString() formatting

Following a question I asked and the advice on SO I implemented the following solution. Are there any downsides to such a solution? Is there a better way to make it changeable when I need to control ...
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Finding the busiest time-frame in a parking lot

The text file containing cars' arrival and departure time will upload stuff from the parking lot. Text will be like this: ...
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Select values from two collections

I have a model: ...
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Simplifying a LINQ expression that finds the largest date smaller than another date

I have a LINQ 2 SQL query that needs to run a subquery in the where clause. The subquery just returns the largest date (from a date column) that is less than or equal to another date (an input to the ...
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Enumerate list with filter criteria

Given the following CreditCard object, how would you get a count of unexpired credit cards? What are the pros/cons of using each method? Or is there a ...
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Sorting a list based on date and time

I have a class that is used to basically store samples from data being read from a system. Within that class is a property that I use to store the date and time of that sample: ...
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LINQ queries improvement - repetition of query

I have a DAL class full of LINQ queries which I would like to improve as I found that I'm repeating myself couple of times. As you can see the part below is repeated couple of times and I was ...
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Linq to get records of various status [closed]

I converted an Stored Procedure into a Linq Query, but it do not get any records. Stored Procedure: ...
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Fetching a set of event IDs from a database based on a set of company IDs

The following code fetches a set of company IDs from a database if there are any events associated with a company that has a missing property. Because the set of company IDs is embedded into the SQL ...
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Find a serial port device through WMI (windows management instrumentation)

The idea here is to be able to find a USB serial port device connected during runtime, thus not knowing its port number, and use it in the application to retrieve information from the device. ...
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IEnumerable Extensions Linq AllOrDefault() Each()

I recently decided to try and write my own implementation of Linq, which then lead me on to trying to solve some of the problems we have in our code base at work. Our code is littered with the ...
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Linq-to-Sql Contains an int? inside a list of int

Curious if there is a better way to write a repository method that receives argument List<int> and checks if the database ...
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Checking for violation of primary key in a DataTable

I coded this function to check for a violation of a primary key in a DataTable. The main idea is to retrieve a list of every row that the same value of the column ...
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Counting email addresses with different status

I want to count email addresses with different status. I use ASP.NET MVC and this query is supposed to run every 5 minutes on these tables, which every table is on different .ndf files. About 5 ...
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12-week staffing forecast LINQ query

I have a LINQ query that I am having trouble optimizing and takes about 5.5 seconds to run. I am using a view called StaffingResourceData and a table called StaffingForecasts. Each StaffingResource ...
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Grouping over a list of dictionaries

I am consuming data from an API that reads from a SharePoint list. The API is basically this: ...
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Checking string length limitation and add items to it in a shorter way with Linq

This method has three parameters. If the extension is not null, for each item in list try to add extension to main text in a way that length of result doesn't exceed 20. I wrote this code, but I ...