{"id":5893,"date":"2007-06-22T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2007\/06\/22\/linq-cookbook-recipe-2-find-all-capitalized-words-in-a-phrase-and-sort-by-length-then-alphabetically-kit-george\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T14:44:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T21:44:51","slug":"linq-cookbook-recipe-2-find-all-capitalized-words-in-a-phrase-and-sort-by-length-then-alphabetically-kit-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/linq-cookbook-recipe-2-find-all-capitalized-words-in-a-phrase-and-sort-by-length-then-alphabetically-kit-george\/","title":{"rendered":"LINQ Cookbook, Recipe 2: Find all capitalized words in a phrase and sort by length (then alphabetically) (Kit George)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ingredients:<\/p>\n

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–<\/font>          <\/span><\/span><\/span>Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

–     Some text you want to search<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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Categories: LINQ-To-Objects, LINQ and strings, LINQ and WinForms<\/p>\n

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Instructions:<\/p>\n

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–<\/font>          <\/span><\/span><\/span>Open Visual Studio 2008, and Click ‘File\/New Project’. <\/font><\/font>Find and double-click the ‘Windows Forms Application’ Icon<\/p>\n

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–<\/font>          <\/span><\/span><\/span>Drag and drop a Listbox to the form. Size the listbox to be fairly tall. <\/font><\/font>Drag and drop a button to the form<\/p>\n

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–<\/font>          <\/span><\/span><\/span>Double-click the button, and add the following code to the button:<\/p>\n

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    <\/span>   <\/span> <\/span>Dim<\/span> text = “Good morning everyone. I’d like to welcome “<\/span> & _<\/p>\n

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                 <\/span>  <\/span>“you to today’s presentation on LINQ. My “<\/span> & _<\/p>\n

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                   <\/span>“name is Kit George and I’m a Program Manager “<\/span> & _<\/p>\n

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                   <\/span>“for Microsoft, on the Visual Basic team. You “<\/span> & _<\/p>\n

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                   <\/span>“might be wondering where my accent is from? “<\/span> & _<\/span><\/p>\n

                   <\/span>“Well, I hail from a small country called New “<\/span> & _<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

                   <\/span>“Zealand but it sure is great to be here in  “<\/span> & _<\/p>\n

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                 <\/span>  <\/span>“Atlanta today!”<\/p>\n

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        <\/span>Dim<\/span> capitalWords = _<\/span><\/p>\n

                      From<\/span> word In<\/span> text.Split( _<\/p>\n

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                      <\/span>New<\/span> Char<\/span>() {“,”<\/span>, “.”<\/span>, “!”<\/span>, ” “<\/span>}, _<\/p>\n

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                      <\/span>StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries) _<\/p>\n

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                      <\/span>Where<\/span> word(0) = Char.ToUpper(word(0)) _<\/p>\n

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                      <\/span>Order<\/span> By<\/span> word.Length, word<\/p>\n

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        <\/span>ListBox1.Items.AddRange(capitalWords.ToArray())<\/span><\/p>\n

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–<\/font>          <\/span><\/span><\/span>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<\/font><\/font><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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