SkipWhile() a function that bypass the elements from the sequence till the condition becomes true and will return the rest of the elements of the sequence. Example 1 : XML data <Products> <Product Name="Football"></Product> <Product Name="Bat"><... [More]

In my previous post I have shown that if you have no records in your table and try to bind that table to a grid view, you will get nothing. Not even the header rows. To get rid of this issue, there is a very simple way. 1. Select Edit Templates 2. Switch over to EmptyDataTemplate 3. Drag an... [More]

I have never been a very big fan of “drag and drop, do data binding… get your application up in no time, and rejoice” approach, but sometimes when I am really lazy I go that route too. So, today was that day… I had a very simple requirement. Let’s take a look at the two tables below… one is Course... [More]

While using LINQ, let’s say you decide to do something similar to the following… NorthWindDataContext dc = new NorthWindDataContext(); Product p = dc.Products.First(p1 => p1.ProductName.StartsWith("My New Product")); if (p == null) return; dc.Products.... [More]

There are multiple benchmarking results already out there for LINQ. The reason why I am doing this again is the because I have heard multiple times that the latest version of LINQ contains a lot of improvements. My current configuration is... Windows Server 2008 Enterprise SP 1Visual Studio 2008 SP... [More]