Lambdas sound like a type of curry, however the only similarity that these beauties have with Indian food are that they’re hot!
Day by day I’m finding lambdas more and more useful. I used to only use them when I was querying the entity framework but I’m finding that I’m constantly falling back on them as a concise and simple way to deal with generic collections.
Today I had a problem that I wanted to solve with out the need to generate too much code or create a custom collection.
All I wanted to know was if my products attribute collection had attributes who’s first Item was a provider with the Id of x.
Lambda enabled me to get this information out and loop through it with just a couple of lines of code.
foreach (IDataTransferAttributeItem attributeItem in product.Attributes.Where(a => a.Providers.First().Id == this.providerId))
{
// TODO: Do something with attributeItem
}