I was writing a small utility for Outlook 2007 and was using LINQ to query Outlook Tasks.  This query was nested within another query.  While debugging, I realized that looping though the query results in my For Each loop was taking too long.
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You can retrieve the list of tasks in your Outlook 2007 using the following code
Dim ns As Outlook.NameSpaceDim tasks As Outlook.Itemsns = Application.GetNamespace(”MAPI”)tasks = ns.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderTasks).Items
Dim task As ObjectFor Each task In tasks    ‘ iterate through the tasks hereNext

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Here is the scenario, I have collection of books and I want to get a book with a specific ISBN.  In the old ways, you will probably have to create a custom collection and inherit a generic collection of books, then add a method to get by ISBN.
Thanks to LINQ and extension methods, you can […]

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As an example, I will call the getCategories API method.
Add a reference to the XML-RPC.net library.
Create a struct for the return result

Public Structure category
Public categoryId As Object
Public parentId As Object
Public description As Object
Public categoryName As Object
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