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2014/04/24 Fun With LINQ Expressions, Lambda Functions and Ternary Operators

At work, we work with Unity. Unity comes with its own IDE, MonoDevelop. MonoDevelop sucks. I hate the way it looks. I hate the way it folds code. I hate the way it unfolds everything every time you save. I like the way it finds files and classes but that’s about the only thing I like about it. And I have to use it for debugging. However, I don’t have to use it for actual coding. I use Visual Studio 2013 because we already have it and it’s a pretty good tool. It does lack some advanced capabilities and so I installed the ReSharper plugin which adds a lot of power to VS and makes it even much more useful. What I like about ReSharper is that it suggested a lot of improvements to my code and actually taught me more about LINQ expssions and Lamda functions. I already knew and much liked Ternary operators. I think that all of them make code more lean and prettier and easier to read as it makes it more legible in actual English. The C Trenary operator is “?”. You use it like this: “(condition) ? (variable if true) : (variable if false)”. Much easier than “if (condition) then return variable1 else return variable2”. Lambda functions are a kind of anonymous function that is much easier and shorter to write. So, instead of writing “delegate(KeyValuePair<long, string> pair) { do something with pair }” and shoving all that into a callback, you just write Continue Reading →