Exercises in .NET with Andras Nemes

Determine the presence of an element in a sequence with LINQ C#

Say we have the following string list:

string[] bands = { "ACDC", "Queen", "Aerosmith", "Iron Maiden", "Megadeth", "Metallica", "Cream", "Oasis", "Abba", "Blur", "Chic", "Eurythmics", "Genesis", "INXS", "Midnight Oil", "Kent", "Madness", "Manic Street Preachers"
, "Noir Desir", "The Offspring", "Pink Floyd", "Rammstein", "Red Hot Chili Peppers", "Tears for Fears"
, "Deep Purple", "KISS"};

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Converting a sequence to a dictionary using the ToDictionary LINQ operator

Say you have a sequence of objects that you’d like to convert into a Dictionary for efficient access by key. Ideally the objects have some kind of “natural” key for the dictionary such as an ID:

public class Singer
{
	public int Id { get; set; }
	public string FirstName { get; set; }
	public string LastName { get; set; }
}

IEnumerable<Singer> singers = new List<Singer>() 
		{
			new Singer(){Id = 1, FirstName = "Freddie", LastName = "Mercury"} 
			, new Singer(){Id = 2, FirstName = "Elvis", LastName = "Presley"}
			, new Singer(){Id = 3, FirstName = "Chuck", LastName = "Berry"}
			, new Singer(){Id = 4, FirstName = "Ray", LastName = "Charles"}
			, new Singer(){Id = 5, FirstName = "David", LastName = "Bowie"}
		};

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Convert a sequence of objects to a sequence of specific type in LINQ .NET

Say that you have some old style collection such as this:

ArrayList stringList = new ArrayList() { "this", "is", "a", "string", "list" };

You can easily turn this into a proper string list using the Cast operator:

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Ordering a .NET data sequence with various LINQ operators

A sequence of any object can be easily ordered with the following LINQ operators in .NET:

• OrderBy
• ThenBy
• OrderByDescending
• ThenByDescending

Consider the following sequence:

string[] bands = { "ACDC", "Queen", "Aerosmith", "Iron Maiden", "Megadeth", "Metallica", "Cream", "Oasis", "Abba", "Blur", "Chic", "Eurythmics", "Genesis", "INXS", "Midnight Oil", "Kent", "Madness", "Manic Street Preachers", "Noir Desir", "The Offspring", "Pink Floyd", "Rammstein", "Red Hot Chili Peppers", "Tears for Fears"					 , "Deep Purple", "KISS"};

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Selecting a subset of elements in LINQ C# with the TakeWhile operator

The TakeWhile extension method in LINQ is similar to Take. With Take you can specify the number of elements to select from a sequence. In the case of TakeWhile we can specify a condition – a boolean function – instead. The operator will take elements from the sequence while the condition is true and then stop.

Data collection:

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Concatenate two IEnumerable sequences in C# .NET

We can use the Range method to build two integer sequences as follows:

IEnumerable<int> firstRange = Enumerable.Range(10, 10);
IEnumerable<int> secondRange = Enumerable.Range(5, 20);

You can join the two sequences using the Concat method:

List<int> concatenated = firstRange.Concat(secondRange).ToList();
concatenated.ForEach(i => Debug.WriteLine(i));

You’ll see that the concatenated sequence holds all numbers from the first and the second sequence:

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