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Beginning C# 7 Hands-On ??? Advanced Language Features

By : Tom Owsiak
Book Image

Beginning C# 7 Hands-On ??? Advanced Language Features

By: Tom Owsiak

Overview of this book

Beginning C# 7 Hands-On – Advanced Language Features assumes that you’ve mastered the basic elements of the C# language and that you're now ready to learn the more advanced C# language and syntax, line by line, in a working Visual Studio environment. You'll learn how to code advanced C# language topics including generics, lambda expressions, and anonymous methods. You'll learn to use query syntax to construct queries and deploy queries that perform aggregation functions. Work with C# and SQL Server 2017 to perform complex joins and stored procedures. Explore advanced file access methods, and see how to serialize and deserialize objects – all by writing working lines of code that you can run within Visual Studio. This book is designed for beginner C# developers who have mastered the basics now, and anyone who needs a fast reference to using advanced C# language features in practical coding examples. You'll also take a look at C# through web programming with web forms. By the time you’ve finished this book, you’ll know all the critical advanced elements of the C# language and how to program everything from C# generics to XML, LINQ, and your first full MVC web applications. These are the advanced building blocks that you can then combine to exploit the full power of the C# programming language, line by line.
Table of Contents (35 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
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Customer Feedback
Preface

Creating a decimal salary array


Next, below the preceding line, you'll make a decimal array called salaries, naturally enough. So, enter the following:

decimal[] salaries = new decimal[] { 56789, 78888, 35555, 34533, 75000 };

This is how you can query a decimal array. This is a decimal array specifically, but it could be any array essentially. We throw in some values, and there you go.

Working with range variables

Next, enter the following below this line:

IEnumerable<string> salResults = from salary in salaries

Notice that the return or results set will be of the string type, not of the decimal type. After salResults =, you want to define the body of the LINQ queries, so you say from salary in salaries. If you hover your mouse over salary here, you see that it is what is known as a range variable, shown in figure 11.6.2. So, you're asking it to take a look in salaries. As a range variable, it's the quantity that goes over all of the entries individually.

Figure 11.6.2: Range variable

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