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c# qr codes Introducing LINQ to Amazon in C#.NET
12.4.1 Introducing LINQ to Amazon Creating QR Code ISO/IEC18004 In Visual C# Using Barcode encoder for .NET framework Control to generate, create QR Code 2d barcode image in VS .NET applications. www.OnBarcode.comQR Code Scanner In C# Using Barcode recognizer for .NET Control to read, scan read, scan image in VS .NET applications. www.OnBarcode.comThe example we ll introduce in this section will use LINQ s extensibility to allow for language-integrated queries against a book catalog. LINQ queries will be converted EAN-13 Creation In Visual C#.NET Using Barcode encoder for .NET Control to generate, create EAN13 image in Visual Studio .NET applications. www.OnBarcode.comUSS Code 128 Maker In Visual C# Using Barcode generation for .NET Control to generate, create Code 128 Code Set A image in .NET applications. www.OnBarcode.comExtending LINQ
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Querying a web service: LINQ to Amazon
orderby years.Key descending select new { Year = years.Key, Books = from book in years select new { book.Title, book.Authors } }; This query can be used for displaying the results like this: Published in 2006 Title=Ruby for Rails : Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers Title=Wxpython in Action Authors=... Published in 2005 Title=Ajax in Action Authors=... Title=Spring in Action (In Action series) Authors=... Authors=...
Published in 2004 Title=Hibernate in Action (In Action series) Authors=... Title=Lucene in Action (In Action series) Authors=... Here is the code that produces this kind of results: foreach (var group in groups) { Console.WriteLine("Published in " + group.Year); foreach (var book in group.Books) { Console.Write(" "); ObjectDumper.Write(book); } Console.WriteLine(); } What a great way to query a catalog of books! Don t you think that this code is comprehensible and clearly expresses the intention It s certainly better than having to construct a web request and having to know all the details of the Amazon API. Let s see what s needed to implement LINQ to Amazon. 12.4.2 Requirements
This time, the data we ll query will not be in memory. When the data is in memory, we can query it continuously and retrieve the results one by one. In our now-classic LINQ to Objects example, each time we perform an iteration in foreach, a new result is pulled from the original list down through our query processing: Extending LINQ
using System.Linq; using LinqInAction.LinqBooks.Common; static class LinqInAction { static void Main() { var books = from book in SampleData.Books where book.Price < 30 select book.Title; foreach (String book in books) { } } }
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