Ingredients:

–          Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher)

–     Some text you want to search

Categories: LINQ-To-Objects, LINQ and strings, LINQ and WinForms

Instructions:

–          Open Visual Studio 2008, and Click ‘File/New Project’. Find and double-click the ‘Windows Forms Application’ Icon

–          Drag and drop a Listbox to the form. Size the listbox to be fairly tall. Drag and drop a button to the form

–          Double-click the button, and add the following code to the button:

        Dim text = “Good morning everyone. I’d like to welcome “ & _

                   “you to today’s presentation on LINQ. My “ & _

                   “name is Kit George and I’m a Program Manager “ & _

                   “for Microsoft, on the Visual Basic team. You “ & _

                   “might be wondering where my accent is from? “ & _

                   “Well, I hail from a small country called New “ & _

                   “Zealand but it sure is great to be here in  “ & _

                   “Atlanta today!”

        Dim capitalWords = _

                      From word In text.Split( _

                      New Char() {“,”, “.”, “!”, ” “}, _

                      StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries) _

                      Where word(0) = Char.ToUpper(word(0)) _

                      Order By word.Length, word

        ListBox1.Items.AddRange(capitalWords.ToArray())

–          Change the text being searched to the text of your choice. If your text is coming from a file, use My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText to get the data into the text variable