I am trying to pass a lambda function to Linq's orderby and cannot get it to work.
The relevant code is:
Dim myordering = Function(m) m.Count
If isAlphaOrder Then
myOrdering = Function(m) m.Key 'Order by Alphabet
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I've got the following to sort entities by their job position. The desired order ist defined in another array. In C# this code works:[code]However I will have to convert this to VB.net. I read the equivalent would be something like the following:[code]This does not compile, gives me "Expression expected" right after the Function(x). What am I doing wrong?
View 1 RepliesI'm getting my feet wet with Lambda expressions and it's rather overwhelming.I have a UserPrincipal object called SelectedUser. I wish to get a sorted list of the user's groups This is what I have so far but when I include that code my application's form flashes a few times and closes! Also, what is the significance of the "r" in the "Return From r" statement?
Dim SortedGroups As PrincipalSearchResult(Of Principal) = GetSortedGroups(Me.SelectedUser.GetGroups())
Private Function GetSortedGroups(ByVal psp As PrincipalSearchResult(Of Principal)) As PrincipalSearchResult(Of Principal)
Return From r In psp.OrderBy(Function(t) t.Name)
End Function
I'm trying to use a nested multi-line lambda Function in VB.NET and am getting an error. Here's what my code looks like:
cartItems = cartItems.Select(Function(ci) New With {.CartItem = ci, .Discount = discountItems.FirstOrDefault(Function(di) di.SKU = ci.SKU)})
.Select(Function(k)
If k.Discount Is Not Nothing Then
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The code below is used in a Linq to SQL solution, and is in the Load event of a form. It works fine to display an ordered list of people's names, and set the value member to that person's ID. However, I'm going to be using these 'people' comboboxes a lot, so I'd like to put a sub into my Utility code there is only one line in the form's Load event.
I want to call something like: Call ComboboBoxPeople(cbo, tblTurnbackMain, ReportedByID)
The sub would begin like: Public Sub ComboboxPeople(cbo as Combobox, tbl as 'sometype', fld as 'someothertype')
What can I use as the parameter types for tbl and fld?
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m_ListOfsAllFields.OrderBy(Function(x) x.DisplayOrder)
here I have DisplayOrder = 0 for 2 fields, so orderby is messing up and not ordering properly. How can I use orderby to order this collection?
Is it possible to shorten the following function to a lambda expression?Or (to do the trick by myself) what is the best and most understandable for beginners tutorial for lambda in vb.net?[code]
View 2 RepliesI'm having a problem implementing Scott G's Dynamic.vb extension at [URL] in my vb solution. I've searched StackOverflow (80+ Q&As) and numerous other sites without much luck. I'm using VS 2010.I've included Dynamic.vb in a problem with no root namespace, and then added a reference to that project in my main one. I'm getting intellisense for 4 overloads (rather than 2) so I'm pretty certain that the extension is in scope.I was having a tough time with clauses, especially the OrderBy as Scott demonstrated. If I simply pass a string as Scott's VB example did I get the error "Overload resolution failed because no accessible 'OrderBy' can be called with these arguments."
The line of code is:
Dim FilteredComponentList = From Component As MX.Component In ComponentList.AsQueryable _
.OrderBy("Name")
So I found other references that stated to pass a Lambda expression. So I tried this and at least I get no error, even if the sort function still doesn't seem to work. Here is the code that compiles and executes.
Private Sub SortByColumn()
If Not cmbComponentFilter.SelectedItem.ToString = "All" Then
Dim FilteredComponentList = From Component As MX.Component In ComponentList.AsQueryable _
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When I interrogate the dgvComponents.Columns(e.ColumnIndex).Name it gives the objects property I wish to sort by, but the sort still isn't working. I'm concerned why I can't get Scott's implementation to work, but I've heard his keynotes and read his blogs, so I'm guessing the problem lies with my implementation.
I'd like either to work but need to understand why as well. Why doesn't passing a string work? Isn't the PARAMARRAY declared in the function optional?
I have a query that can be summarised in SQL as follows;
Select
S.StockCode
From
StockToCheck As S
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Where the S var is a list of strings. This gives the error 'S' is not declared and points to the S in the function call / join (GetPOSStock). So it does not seem possible to do this in Linq, can anyone confirm?
I have a method in a webservice that has parameter with which users can decide how they want to order their results. This is a List(Of String) with the names of the fields in the order they want to sort them. I know I can normally order on multiple columns by doing the following
Dim test = Bars.OrderBy(Function(x) x.Foo) _
.ThenBy(Function(x) x.Bar) _
.ThenBy(Function(x) x.Test)
However in this case this won't work since I can't chain the ThenBy function because I'm adding the sorting orders in a loop. To use ThenBy I need an IOrderedQueryable collection. This is how I would want it to work
Dim sortColumns = {"Foo", "Bar", "Test"}
Dim query = From b in Bars
For each column in sortColumns
Select Case column
Case "Foo"
query = query.Orderby(Function(x) x.Foo)
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I have a grid view with a lot of columns, all need to be sorted on. I have seen a few snippets out there, but I cannot get any of them to work with my example. Here is what I have so far.
Protected Sub gvSearch_OnSorting(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As GridViewSortEventArgs)
If Not Session("sort") Is Nothing Then
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I am learning MVC3 and transitioning to VB.NET from C# at the same time (Fun, I know). I am running through the MvcMusicStore sample for learning MVC3. All the samples are in C# so I am converting them to VB. I came across one piece of code that I was unable to directly convert and had to change slightly to get it to work.
why one way works and the other doesn't.
This does not work:
Dim albums = New List(Of Album)() From { _
New Album() With { _
.Title = "A Copland Celebration, Vol. I", _
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I have a user input screen that allows them to select input values and the resulting query is dependent on which values the user entered. The resulting query groups up the results to present a list of unique customers
Simplified table design - A customer can be in many states
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I'm using Entity Framework in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (.NET framework 4.0 Beta 2). I have created an entity framework .edmx model from my database and I have a handful of many-to-many relationships.
A trivial example of my database schema is
Roles (ID, Name, Active)
Members (ID, DateOfBirth, DateCreated)
RoleMembership(RoleID, MemberID)
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For brevity I turned the list of all the columns from the Members table into *
As you can see it's just ignoring the "Role" query.
Where can I find complex LINQ examples made using VB.NET Lambda Expression syntax?During my searches I always found 101 LINQ Samples but they use the other notation and for me is not always clear how to transform that code into a lambda expression.
View 1 RepliesI am trying to convert the following code for the variance calculation
public static double Variance(this IEnumerable<double> source){
double avg = source.Average();
double d = source.Aggregate(0.0,
(total, next) => total += Math.Pow(next - avg, 2));
return d / (source.Count() - 1);
}
Described on CodeProject into corresponded VB.NET lambda expression syntax, but I am stuck in the conversion of Aggregate function. How can I implement that code in VB.NET?
For I've tried this:Dim exampleItems As Dictionary(Of String, String) = New Dictionary(Of String, String)
Dim blah = exampleItems.Select (Function(x) New (x.Key, x.Value)).ToList 'error here
But I'm getting a syntax error and all the examples that I've seen are in C#.
I am pretty confused about lambdas. What I am trying to do here is write a function that will return an object from a certain table with a certain criteria. So lets say I can write:
function GetRecord(TableName as string,Criteria as string) as object
'do the linq-stuff
end function
Now I don't care if the parameters are strings or lambdas or whatever, but the end result must be that at runtime I don't know which table and which criteria will be used. As sometimes I need to get a customer record by email and sometimes a product by id etc. If possible I would prefer returning a list of matching objects and then I would just use .firstordefault when I want 1 (such as by id...).
I have a lambda expression that builds a list ofanonymous types. I would like to include a property in the anonymous type that is a counter. So the first entry is 1, second 2, third 3, and so on.I thought I recallenyone know the syntax for defining an indexing variable as part of a Linq query or lambda expression?
View 10 RepliesI'm still trying to get my head around the whole "Lambda Expressions" thing.
Can anyone here give me an example ordering by multiple columns using VB.Net and Linq-to-SQL using a lambda expression?
Here is my existing code, which returns an ordered list using a single-column to order the results:
Return _dbContext.WebCategories.OrderBy(Function(c As WebCategory) c.DisplayOrder).ToList
Note: The WebCategory object has a child WebPage object (based on a foreign key). I'd like to order by WebPage.DisplayOrder first, then by WebCategory.DisplayOrder.
I tried chaining the order bys, like below, and though it compiled and ran, it didn't seem to return the data in the order I wanted.
Return _dbContext.WebCategories.OrderBy(Function(c As WebCategory) c.DisplayOrder).OrderBy(Function(c As WebCategory) c.WebPage.DisplayOrder).ToList
I have an untyped dataset returned from my WebService. The user wants to dynamically construct a query referencing tables and columns and specifying values to test for.I have looked at Lambda Expressions and the Expressions.Expression Namespace. I think these provide the answer I'm looking for, but I'm not certain how to go about contructing the linq expressions to extract the datarows I'm looking for.
I plan on limiting the result to one datatable that the query will result in and i"ll provide the joins from the user's constructs.For a simple example I have a DataTable with (n) rows called "Table", and in it there is a computed column called "b_IsActive" that has the expression "Convert(IsActive, 'System.Boolean')". The user wants to retrieve all rows in "Table" where field "b_IsActive" is true.
I want to make an numerical integration method with takes in an analytic function and integrate it over a specific interval. For the numerical integration procedure I want to use some procedures in nr.com. The problem is that these are programmed in C++ and they uses functors to pass a function to the integration method. How can I do this in VB 2010?
I want to initialize the function (i.e. set a=1,b=0 for function y(x)=a*x+b) and then pass the function to the integration method. Then when the integration method call the function it only calls the function with one parameter (i.e. x since a,b is already set)
What is the best way to do this in VB2010?I want to make a general integration method where I can pass any single valued function and integration limits.
I have just started using VB, and from what I have found so far it seems like the tools you have is
- to us a delegate for the function
- to use a lambda expression for the function
- send a pointer/adressOf
- to create a function class/structure and submit this to the function
As for now I am most inclined to create a function-class. But I am not really sure how.F.ex. I make different classes for each "uniqe function" I want to integrate, but how can I pass them to the integration function when I need to specify the argument type in the integration-function-call?This seems like a basic problem which applies to many Math operations, so I think it would be very useful to clarify this.
I'm looking for an advanced level VB.NET book which covers LINQ and Lambda Expressions.Generally I read C# .NET books due to lack of good VB.NET books when it comes to generic .NET Framework related subjects. However Lambda and LINQ is quite different in C# and VB.NET I'm looking for an advanced level VB.NET book on this subjec
View 1 RepliesI get the following string expression provided:"ChildObject.FullName" ...where ChildObject is an instance property on the MyObject1 type.ChildObject has a property named "FullName" and I want to sort a collection of type "MyObject1" based on this child properties "FullName" value.
I can do this all day long on properties directly on MyObject1 but I run into 2 challanges when doing it on a child instance and I can't get all the pieces working. The main 2 challanges are:
MyObject1 has a few different child property types so I can't hardcode the type for ChildObject. The string could be of any type.The sort expression is a String and not a known type.Above the value returned from the last line in the expression (if I run the code outsode the OrderBy method, does provide me the 'FullName' information I need. So the code must be close, but it still does not work.
Any ideas on how I can accomplish this? What I am trying to prevent is hardcoding a series of 'If' blocks on the child's type to then hardcode in its type to the sort or OrderBy method.
I have this function that maps a IDataReader to a class. It is obviously written in C#. My co-worker wants to use the same method in his code, but he is writing in VB.net. Basically I am having difficulty rewriting this due to the Lambda expressions used in C#. He is running .Net 3.5.
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I have a problem with VB9 and Moq.I need to call a verify on a Sub. Like so:logger.Verify(Function(x) x.Log, Times.AtLeastOnce)And my logger looks like this:
Public Interface ILogger
Sub Log()
End Interface
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Can a LINQ or a LAMBDA expression be used to count the 1's in a binary string ?For example, if I convert a number to its BINARY using.>>
Dim binaryString As String = Convert.ToString( numberVariable, 2 )
1) Without using a loop such as a FOR NEXT loop, can I count the number of 1's in the STRING using LINQ or a LAMBDA expression?
2) Can I get the indexes of where the 1's are at in a collection such as a LIST using LINQ or a LAMBDA expression?I know the syntax of some LINQ expressions, however, I don't know which method may be suitable.
Should I be concerned about the performance of the Compile method here?[code]...
The reason I want the lambda expression is because I want that function to be able to get all the way through LINQ-to-SQL to be converted to SQL. The reason I want the direct version is because I have other code that I want to validate individual serial numbers before submitting changes. And I fear that GetValidSerialNumbers.Contains(serialNumber) will execute a more-complex-than-necesssary query.
I'm trying to sort a list of string, which (each item) consists of a word followed by a space, then a number. I want to sort first alphabetically by the word, then numerically by the number. I tried something like this:
wordList = wordList.OrderBy(Function(x, y) CStr(x.Split(" "c)(0)).CompareTo(CStr(y.Split(" "c)(0)))).ThenBy(CInt(x.Split(" "c)(1)).CompareTo(CInt(y.Split(" "c)(1))))
I have a lambda function that I can assign to a field and pass it to a sub routine, but cannot assign to a property. My field is defined as follows:
Public Delegate Sub SubDelegate()
Private pDeleteFunction As Func(Of BookCaseRow, SubDelegate)
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