Hmm...that wasn't to my recollection. I could have sworn that it allowed indexing and length checks even if the underlying implementations didn't support it (ie not via late binding). Unfortunately VS stopped working on my phone so I'll need to wait until I get in back in the office to play around.
Sent from my Windows Phone -----Original Message----- From: Bill McCarthy Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 6:28 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: LINQ extensions That's only if you have Strict Off and use late binding. |-----Original Message----- |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Kean |Sent: Thursday, 17 February 2011 1:18 PM |To: ozDotNet |Subject: RE: LINQ extensions | |Not true - try this in VB. | |Sent from my Windows Phone |________________________________ | |From: Tristan Reeves |Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 5:24 PM |To: ozDotNet |Subject: Re: LINQ extensions | | |That's true, but you never would, with or without linq. That is because |IEnumerable does not have such a property. | | |On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:55 PM, James Chapman-Smith |<ja...@enigmativity.com> wrote: | | | LINQ doesn't cause `.Length` to disappear, but if you assign the array to |an `IEnumerable<T>` then you won't seen the `.Length` property. | | | | From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Tristan Reeves | Sent: Wednesday, 16 February 2011 11:54 | | | To: ozDotNet | Subject: Re: LINQ extensions | | | | | | | | But Length is always a (valid) property of arrays, whether or not LINQ is |reference. Or are you saying that Length "disappears" when LINQ is |referenced? | | | | Tristan. | | On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Ian Thomas <il.tho...@iinet.net.au> |wrote: | | Michael - slip of the fingers - yes, it was a .Count method (when LINQ is |referenced), and a .Length property (when not). Not weird, lang c# | | | | |________________________________ | | | Ian Thomas | Victoria Park, Western Australia | | |________________________________ | | | From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Michael Minutillo | Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 1:20 PM | To: ozDotNet | Subject: Re: LINQ extensions | | | | Weird. It should add a .Count() extension method, not a property. Are |you coding in a language that has optional parentheses by any chance? | | On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Ian Thomas <il.tho...@iinet.net.au> |wrote: | | FYI only | | Just an oddity I hadn't taken in before, that a reference to LINQ makes |.Count a valid property of arrays (otherwise .Length is valid). | | I had been using LINQ to Objects in a small projects and changed it to |not do so, meticulously cleaned references to LINQ out (VS2008 does not seem |to do that thoroughly), and had a couple of errors arise with myarrays.Count |statements I had been slack enough to write previously. | | Framework 3.5 | | |________________________________ | | | Ian Thomas | Victoria Park, Western Australia | | | | |
