In the previous lesson, I talked about the fact that LINQ actually delays the execution of its constituent queries up until the very last moment, when we actually need the data. What was not as obvious at the time was the order in which the LINQ queries are executed.… Read more
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LINQ execution workflow
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021Deferred execution
Wednesday, June 9th, 2021Yield break statement
Tuesday, May 11th, 2021Whenever we use the yield keyword in a statement, we indicate that the method, operator, or get accessor in which it appears is an iterator. Of course, since we know that iterators are used to… duh! iterate on collections of data, and since we know that when iterating on a collection, we can use the break keyword to immediately terminate the iteration, it is only obvious that whenever we use an yield return statement to return values in an iterator, like I’ve shown in the previous lesson, we can also use yield break to terminate the iteration of the said iterator.… Read more
