Generation Operations (Visual Basic)

Generation refers to creating a new sequence of values.

The standard query operator methods that perform generation are listed in the following section.

Methods

Method Name	Description	Visual Basic Query Expression Syntax	More Information
DefaultIfEmpty	Replaces an empty collection with a default valued singleton collection.	Not applicable.	Enumerable.DefaultIfEmpty Queryable.DefaultIfEmpty
Empty	Returns an empty collection.	Not applicable.	Enumerable.Empty
Range	Generates a collection that contains a sequence of numbers.	Not applicable.	Enumerable.Range
Repeat	Generates a collection that contains one repeated value.	Not applicable.	Enumerable.Repeat

See also

• System.Linq
• Standard Query Operators Overview (Visual Basic)