LINQPad is a powerful testing tool for all .NET developers that can help them deliver solutions in less time. In Getting the Most from LINQPad Succinctly, returning Succinctly series author José Roberto Olivas Mendoza lays out different ways to extend the functionality built into LINQPad. In this ebook, you’ll learn how to use LINQPad to query Entity Framework models in Visual Studio, how to work with the LINQPad command-line utility, how to write your own extensions and visualizers, and how to write custom data context drivers.

• A Quick Tour of LINQPad

• LINQPad and Entity Framework

• LINQPad Scripting

• LINQPad Extensibility

• Custom Data Context Drivers

Custom languages provide many benefits, but many people fear the complexity that comes with trying to deploy them. Author Vassili Kaplan sweeps away the obstacles and shows how custom languages are a tool within reach of any developer. With Implementing a Custom Language Succinctly, readers will discover just how much they can accomplish with the skills they already have.

        /// <summary>
        /// (Syntactic Sugar) Checks if the given value is among a list of values or not.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// This method is for syntactic sugar. What it actually does is to allow developers to wrtie a code like this
        /// <code>
        /// xVariable.IsIn(MyEnum.Value1,MyEnum.Value2)
        /// </code>
        /// Instead of these codes:
        /// <code>
        /// new []{ MyEnum.Value1, MyEnum.Value2 }.Contains(xVariable);
        /// </code>
        /// Or more commonly:
        /// <code>
        /// xVariable == MyEnum.Value1 || xVariable == MyEnum.Value2
        /// </code>
        /// </remarks>
        /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
        /// <param name="source"></param>
        /// <param name="list"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public static bool IsIn<T>(this T source, params T[] list)
        {
            Func<T, T, bool> compare = (v1, v2) => EqualityComparer<T>.Default.Equals(v1, v2);
            return list.Any(item => compare(item, source));
        }

using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;

namespace RowsCountSample
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            using (var pdfDoc = new Document(PageSize.A4))
            {
                var pdfWriter = PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, new FileStream("Test.pdf", FileMode.Create));
                pdfDoc.Open();

                var table1 = new PdfPTable(3);
                table1.HeaderRows = 2;
                table1.FooterRows = 1;

                //header row  
                var headerCell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("header"));
                headerCell.Colspan = 3;
                headerCell.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;
                table1.AddCell(headerCell);

                //footer row  
                var footerCell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("footer"));
                footerCell.Colspan = 3;
                footerCell.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;
                table1.AddCell(footerCell);

                //adding some rows  
                for (int i = 0; i < 70; i++)
                {
                    //adds a new row
                    table1.AddCell(new Phrase("Cell[0], Row[" + i + "]"));
                    table1.AddCell(new Phrase("Cell[1], Row[" + i + "]"));
                    table1.AddCell(new Phrase("Cell[2], Row[" + i + "]"));

                    //sets the number of rows per page
                    if (i > 0 && table1.Rows.Count % 7 == 0)
                    {
                        pdfDoc.Add(table1);
                        table1.DeleteBodyRows();
                        pdfDoc.NewPage();
                    }
                }

                pdfDoc.Add(table1);
            }

            //open the final file with adobe reader for instance.  
            Process.Start("Test.pdf");
        }
    }
}

if (i > 0 && table1.Rows.Count % 7 == 0)
{
      pdfDoc.Add(table1);
      table1.DeleteBodyRows();
      pdfDoc.NewPage();
}