Reason not to use LINQ

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crauscher picture crauscher · Oct 16, 2009 · Viewed 10.6k times · Source

Are there any good Reasons not to use LINQ in my projcts? We use .Net 3.5 and VSTO 3.0.

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James picture James · Oct 16, 2009

Personally I can't see why you wouldn't want to use it, it makes code much more readable.

With that being said, LINQ can sometimes be detrimental to performance in certain scenarios, that would really only be my reason for not using it.

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