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

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Building lists of users and roles for ASP.Net/C# user-management page

I have a user management page that works decently right now with the exception it can take about 5 seconds to load. Testing shows that is it the code I am using to build lists. I was hoping to get a ...
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Locating people by roleId

Basically, I'm trying to find all active people with a roleId of 3 (analyst id). But I want to exclude ids that were created as test analysts, i.e. "130", "252", ...
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Linq-like functions in JavaScript

Today was my first day working with JavaScript and I tried to implement some Linq-like (C#) functions as extension methods. I'm pretty new to JavaScript and wanted to ask you for checking my ...
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Linq query combining three tables [closed]

I have a linq query that combines three tables: Users, Products, and User_Has_Products I ...
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IQueryable left outer join linq extension

I wanted to create an extension method to enable left outer joins in linq/lambda IQueryables, and I have come up with the following, but I am still not sure it's completely correct. ...
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Updating database based on selected check boxes

I posted the original question here, but I think it would be nice to have someone else's eye on this code for improving it. ...
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Constructing file paths for each row of a datatable in C#

I need to iterate through a DataTable and columns in each rows and do some data manipulation. Below given is an extract from my code, I use c#.net. I expect maximum rows in datatable will be less ...
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Get XML elements with a particular attribute value

I have the following code to find xml elements that have a particular attribute value: ...
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LINQ to SQL query filter, with the name match ignoring multiple punctuation characters

I have the following LINQ to SQL query which works fine but looks ugly: ...
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Grouping reviews by UserId

The class I'm using is called Review and looks like this: ...
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Climbing the stairs

A quick description on the problem I solved on codewars.com but remember I just want a small part of my solution refactored (just the for-loop): Description ...
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Sort and merge list based on another list

Here I'm merging a list to end of another list after sorting it according to another list.This should sort processdetails list according to the order in routeplans list if any item not present in ...
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Check if the user exists

Scenario: Check if the user exists If yes: update the details Else: insert the user details ...
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Using LINQ to group social networking links for each user

I have a model named User. Each user can have some social links. Now I want to get all users with their social link as a single row in the result. Here are my ...
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Country code lookup for each line in a CSV file

I'm trying to write a program that has a for loop, inside of which I have lambda expression to get a certain value. The loop has about 20,000 iterations. Including ...
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Transform a List of objects to a string of unique values for use in an SQL query

I have a List of Results. My goal is to extract the Result property ...
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HackerRank woman codesprint: minimum cost

Lauren has a chart of projected prices for a house over the next n years, where the price of the house in the i-th year is <...
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IQueryable Extensions working on expression for collection property

Followup to Repository searching code duplication My goal currently is to make my current implementation of my repository's IQueryable filtering less duplicative. First, I looked into passing ...
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Migrating data using entity framework, linq and recursion

I have a piece of code to migrate data from an old app to a new app. The data represents the user's websites. In the old app the user only had one section for websites, on which you could add any ...
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Retrieving website categories from a three-level hierarchy

I've been trying to fix this performance bottleneck in my web app for a while now. Here is what the data looks like on my web page: Here is how I get this data in the controller: ...
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Unfold a 2D array spiral in C#

The purpose of this function is to turn a 2D array of sorts into a single-dimensional array by reading it in a spiral fashion. In the array: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ...
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Pangrams implementation using Linq

This is a continuation of my LINQ stories from Pangrams-Hackerrank. Similarly, this challenge has been asked before in python Pangrams python Implementation but I have tried to accomplish this ...
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Diagonal difference using Linq

Recently, I have been trying my hands on LINQ. So I've implemented the diagonal difference using Linq in Hackerrank. I know a similar question has been asked in python Diagonal Difference Here is ...
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Implementing SOLID Principles - LINQ TO SQL

I have been using Layered Architecture in my web application. Can anyone please advise if my data layer classes (both Linq and booking class) can be improved? I have just started learning about solid ...
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Chunking a list into separate lists of 5, and then iterating through each

I'm writing a service that receives a list of Latitude/Longitude objects, prepares them for transaction, and then calls a web service to write them to the organization's Mainframe. According to the ...
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XML settings file read/write Design Patterns [closed]

I'm new to C# and would like to create a WPF app with xml config file. I have a certain setting file written by using System.Xml.Linq;. And I'd like to write ...
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Filtering data for jQuery DataTables

Using DataTables (Table plug-in for jQuery) with server-side processing, I had to create filtering for my data with good performance. However, in my opinion it's kinda ugly, especially the part of (<...
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Too Many Staff Meetings

I recently got in really deep on a question to find the overlapping meetings and I rewrote a bit of the code and added some things to the code, and I would just like a general review of my code and ...
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Creating monthly files from an annual file

I am interested in learning a more succinct (or better performing) way of writing the following working code. I just figured it out but it is pretty messy. This program takes a file full of daily ...
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Delete records from multiple tables when deleting a subproject [closed]

In my program I am deleting subprojects using LINQ. It's incredibly slow. There is a lot of cascade on delete's here so I am deleting from multiple tables. Any help and tips would be appreciated. ...
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Factoring WHERE clauses in IQueryable

I recovered some spaghetti code and I have to refactor it. I do not want a method with over 200 lines, for me it is not object oriented programming. I am trying to ponder on the question and would ...
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Reading in a file and ranking result to output file

I am reading in a file which consists of scores between two teams. The team that wins gets 2 points, if the teams tie both teams get one point. The result is ranked by points and if there is a tie ...
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Concatenating two IEnumerables with a limit

I've been playing around with generators, generics and extension methods in C# (5.0) and wanted to create an extension method for IEnumerable, which would append ...
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Creating a random code and saving if it does not exist

I have created a script to generate 5 random codes, check if any one of them exists in the database, and if not, insert the record. The script will throw an exception if a single code could not be ...
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Simple generic linq expression generation method

Here is my generic method for creating linq expression based on field name of a type, operator (as enumerations of operators generated from XSD) and value of field ...
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LINQ sorting using custom IComparer is very slow

Joining a project with some crazy LINQ sorting statements and after refactoring by the team using a custom comparer we found out that it is so slow for some data that you actually think it is an ...
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LINQish command line parser

I needed to parse some command line switches from a string and I tried to do it the easy way so I just wrote this: ...
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Search for variants of keywords using LINQ

First, I'm adding words entered into a search field to an array. Then, I'm getting results from a stored procedure on SQL Server using Database First approach with Entity Framework. Finally, for ...
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Linqy Sudoku game generator

I created a class that is able to generate a Sudoku board. The following board generation steps are made: Create a valid board with numbers on all squares, row by row Basically I always generate ...
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Check if an Array of Arrays contains a value in node js

In C#, I could check if any of the nested List collection has a value. Example of such structure Check a List[]> contains a value using Linq ...
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Checking whether relations are equal to foreign fields using LINQ Any()

Can you find a more understandable way to write the following one-liner? ...
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Add multiple instances of a property to a list [closed]

I'm a novice programmer asking first question here although I've gotten tons of help from previous questions. The following code is abstracted from what I currently have working. ...
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Split IEnumerable by predicate

In order to divide an IEnumerable in C# by a predicate, I implemented the following (in a static class): ...
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Sort group item by attribute

I have a repository method which retrieve a list of items, for example: ...
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LINQ Provider: Supporting Projections

Up until recently, my LINQ-to-Sage provider didn't support projections, so the client code had to explicitly "transfer" to LINQ-to-Objects, like this: ...
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create generic method for two different anonymous types

Function 1: ...
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Countable and uncountable sets in .NET (IEnumerable and Predicate)

There is a full featured support of countable sets in .NET: IEnumerable<T>. What about uncountable sets; sets defined by predicate? How can they be ...
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Loading and updating data from system A to system B

I need to transfer purchase order (PO) information from SQL Server into Sage 300 ERP, so using my Linq-to-Sage implementation, I wrote a little console application that connects to a SQL Server ...
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Is my LINQ query safe and efficient?

I am relatively new to LINQ queries as I normally just use plain SQL to get my data back but i am changing for the good - Anyway obviously with SQL you pass in parameters so you do not get any SQL ...
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