Author Archives: Pierre IRRMANN

Linq provider : an attempt… part 4

Using the Visitor pattern to manipulate expression trees In the previous posts of this series, I started to describe a partial implementation of a Linq provider. The aim of this provider is to get data from a service, and in … Continue reading

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Linq provider : an attempt… part 3

Finally doing something In the previous post of this series, I introduced the first classes implied in setting-up the Linq provider : QueryableDummyData and DummyQueryProvider, but these classes weren’t doing much of the real work. We were finally getting to … Continue reading

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Linq provider : an attempt… part 2

Setting up the scene To build my sample provider, I’ll be querying a sample Web Service. First, Let’s see the big picture of what I’m trying to do : DummyWs : my sample provider will be built against a web … Continue reading

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Linq provider : an attempt… part 1

The call of the AST I have this will, for quite a long time, to try to implement a basic LINQ provider. The general idea is to play with AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) manipulations, using my language of choice : … Continue reading

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Extension Methods and inheritance – part 2

Things to know before using LINQ Providers (LINQ to something) or PLINQ (Parallel LINQ to objects) Today I wanted to continue my explanations on extensions methods and why one should know how they work before trying to use LINQ providers … Continue reading

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