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Linq to objects for .NET 2 available

· 2 min read
Roger Johansson
Founder, Asynkron Systems

Patrik Löwendahl blogged about using C#3 features in .NET 2 via VS.NET 2008 a few days ago:
http://www.lowendahl.net/showShout.aspx?id=191

There are quite a few of the new features that works straight out of the box.
However, Linq does not, alot of the code that Linq uses is simply not present in the .NET 2 BCL.

So, inspired by Patriks post I opened up an old custom Linq engine that I wrote a while back and spiced it up and adapted it for .NET 2.
I also added a few of the standard list extensions such as “Take” “Skip” etc.

**The code can be found here: ** www.puzzleframework.com/Roger/LinqForNet2.zip

And before you get all excited, this is only Linq to objects, NOT Linq to SQL….

The code supports the following Linq constructs, features and list extensions:

  • from (ok ok, I didn’t have to code anything for that)

  • where

  • join

  • groupby

  • orderby

  • select

  • Take

  • Skip

  • TakeWhile

  • SkipWhile

  • Distinct

  • Deferred execution

Enjoy : – )

 //Roger