Taking inspiration from Raynes Functional Challenge.

Using the iterator functionality of the AsyncCTP of vb.net, I have reimplemented the standard sequence operators (LINQ).

Map

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I saw this Java Challenge in the Java Programming section and though it would be a good idea to implement it vb.net. Both as challenge and a comparison of the JVM and .Net VMs
The solution and testing environment consists of 3 separate projects.

1. The Interface

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Recently in the vb.net forum there as been a few questions related to LINQ and XML.
So I've but together this blog post to serve as a quick revision and also to collate some of the resource you'll find useful.
LINQ

LINQ stands for Language Integrated Queries

Let just delve straight in with an example.

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You every had that problem where you are looking for a particular piece of code, but you can't find the project it was in. Are they all named a derivation of WindowsApplication?? or ConsoleApplication??.

Tired opening each possible one in Visual Studio, and it (VS) take ages to loadup.

Then I have the program to assist you.

VS Quick Look...

Imagine if the vb.net language didn't have a for loop, how could you implement one?

For x=0 To 10  'body of loopNext

You could implement one as a method.

[For](0,10, ...)