Skip to Main Content
Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed
book

Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

by Alessandro Del Sole
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1300 pages
87h 27m
English
Sams
Content preview from Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Conversion Operators

LINQ query results are returned as IEnumerable(Of T) (or IQueryable(Of T), as you see in the next chapters), but you often need to convert this type into a most appropriate one. For example, query results cannot be edited unless you convert them into a typed collection. To do this, LINQ offers some extension methods whose job is converting query results into other .NET types such as arrays or collections. Let’s consider the Products collection of the previous section’s examples and first perform a query expression that retrieves all products that are not discontinued:

Dim query = From prod In products            Where prod.Discontinued = False            Select prod

The result of this query is ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Beginning Visual Basic 2015

Beginning Visual Basic 2015

Bryan Newsome

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780134196664Purchase book