LINQ on the .NET 2.0 Runtime

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urini picture urini · Aug 5, 2008 · Viewed 54.8k times · Source

Can a LINQ enabled app run on a machine that only has the .NET 2.0 runtime installed?

In theory, LINQ is nothing more than syntactic sugar, and the resulting IL code should look the same as it would have in .NET 2.0.

How can I write LINQ without using the .NET 3.5 libraries? Will it run on .NET 2.0?

Answer

Mauricio Scheffer picture Mauricio Scheffer · Dec 27, 2008

It's weird that no one has mentioned LINQBridge. This little awesome project is a backport of LINQ (IEnumerable, but without IQueryable) and its dependencies (Func, Action, etc) to .NET 2.0. And:

If your project references LINQBridge during compilation, then it will bind to LINQBridge's query operators; if it references System.Core during compilation, then it will bind to Framework 3.5's query operators.

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