Tag: linq

  • learn LINQ in 5 minutes

    Translating SQL to LINQ can prove difficult for new and experienced C# developers. This post contains common SQL queries written in LINQ. I hope it’ll serve as a reference when writing LINQ queries. I’ll use a MS SQL database and Entity Framework for my examples. However, these examples can be extracted to other ORMs and…

  • LINQ vs Lambda vs loop – A performance test

    I was wondering about the benefits of using Linq over Lambda or vice versa for data filtering. I knew that the for loop was the fastest. But I was really interested to know whether lambda expression had any advantage over traditional LINQ syntax. For my understanding, both LINQ and lambda were same. Lambdas are the…