That's only if you have Strict Off and use late binding.
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|From: [email protected] [mailto:ozdotnet-
|[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Kean
|Sent: Thursday, 17 February 2011 1:18 PM
|To: ozDotNet
|Subject: RE: LINQ extensions
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|Not true - try this in VB.
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|From: Tristan Reeves
|Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 5:24 PM
|To: ozDotNet
|Subject: Re: LINQ extensions
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|That's true, but you never would, with or without linq. That is because
|IEnumerable does not have such a property.
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|On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:55 PM, James Chapman-Smith
|<[email protected]> wrote:
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| LINQ doesn't cause `.Length` to disappear, but if you assign the
array to
|an `IEnumerable<T>` then you won't seen the `.Length` property.
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| From: [email protected] [mailto:ozdotnet-
|[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tristan Reeves
| Sent: Wednesday, 16 February 2011 11:54
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| To: ozDotNet
| Subject: Re: LINQ extensions
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| But Length is always a (valid) property of arrays, whether or not
LINQ is
|reference. Or are you saying that Length "disappears" when LINQ is
|referenced?
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| Tristan.
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| On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Ian Thomas <[email protected]>
|wrote:
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| Michael - slip of the fingers - yes, it was a .Count method (when
LINQ is
|referenced), and a .Length property (when not). Not weird, lang c#
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| Ian Thomas
| Victoria Park, Western Australia
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| From: [email protected] [mailto:ozdotnet-
|[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Minutillo
| Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 1:20 PM
| To: ozDotNet
| Subject: Re: LINQ extensions
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| Weird. It should add a .Count() extension method, not a property.
Are
|you coding in a language that has optional parentheses by any chance?
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| On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Ian Thomas <[email protected]>
|wrote:
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| FYI only
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| Just an oddity I hadn't taken in before, that a reference to LINQ
makes
|.Count a valid property of arrays (otherwise .Length is valid).
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| I had been using LINQ to Objects in a small projects and changed it
to
|not do so, meticulously cleaned references to LINQ out (VS2008 does not
seem
|to do that thoroughly), and had a couple of errors arise with
myarrays.Count
|statements I had been slack enough to write previously.
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| Framework 3.5
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| Ian Thomas
| Victoria Park, Western Australia
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