Author: Craig Stuntz
If you have a list, array, or query in a C#/LINQ application and need to check and see if the list is empty, the correct way to do this is to use the Any() extension method:
if (q.Any())
{
Similarly, you can check to see if any elements in the list meet a certain condition:
if (q.Any(i => i.IsSpecial))
{
If the query provider is something like LINQ to Entities…
join in LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities Considered Messy, Redundant
January 13, 2010
Author: Alf Christophersen
In this post I will demonstrate that use of the join keyword in LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities is nearly always wrong. LINQ queries which you write with the join keyword are harder to read and write than queries you write using associations, and…
