Rhonda Tipton's WebLog

A couple of weeks ago I attended the Houston C# SIG meeting. Ken Getz did presentations on both Silverlight and LINQ to Objects.

Silverlight

Ken defined Silverlight as a programmable browser plugin that supports animations, vector graphics and videos.

Some features include –

• Works on Mac/Linux/Windows
• Client-side technologies
• Uses XAML for declarative design
• Expression Blend – best software to use for Silverlight/XAML design
• Visual Studio 2010 includes the components needed to build Silverlight apps out of the box

The following site allows you to verify if your pc is able to run Silverlight applications http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/get-started/install/default.aspx

Silverlight is basically an HTML page with an <object> tag.

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LINQ to Objects

There are several LINQ providers –

• Objects
• SQL
• DataSets
• XML
• Entities

Example Usage

string[] geeks = { “Sheldon”, “Leonard”, “Howard”, “Raj”};

var myQuery = from g in geeks
              orderby g
              select g;

Console.WriteLine(“My Favorite Geeks”);

foreach (var x in myQuery)
{
    Console.WriteLine(x);
}

Ken provided a very informative presentation on LINQ to Objects and I am glad I was able to catch it.

Ken’s LINQ demo code

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