Dictionary Suggest Revisited
During the introduction of our discussion about reactive programming, I mentioned the typical AJAX example of dictionary suggest. In doing so, we came to the conclusion there are two event sources somehow. One is the user typing text in the Search box, causing TextChanged events to be raised. Upon every such event, we want to start an asynchronous call to a web service to get dictionary suggestions for words starting with the typed term. This can be nicely expressed in LINQ as follows:
Because we haven’t seen LINQ in much depth just yet, approach this query expression with your gut feeling: For every TextChanged event ...
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