Duplicate LINQ articles

[gewarren]

Some LINQ articles are duplicated in the /visual-basic and /csharp subfolders. This is bad from a maintenance perspective. Can we consolidate?

For example:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/programming-guide/concepts/linq/linq-to-adonet-portal-page and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/concepts/linq/linq-to-adonet-portal-page

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/programming-guide/concepts/linq/enabling-a-data-source-for-linq-querying and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/concepts/linq/enabling-a-data-source-for-linq-querying1

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/programming-guide/concepts/linq/visual-studio-ide-and-tools-support-for-linq and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/concepts/linq/visual-studio-ide-and-tools-support-for-linq

[Youssef1313]

Where they should be consolidated ?

[gewarren]

It's probably fine to have a LINQ section in each language's TOC, but for articles that are duplicated, we could either convert them to an include file that's reused in each TOC, or we could choose one location (I'd say C#) and then link to that file from the other (VB) TOC - link it with a contextual TOC link so you don't jump to the C# TOC when you click it.

[Youssef1313]

Wouldn't it be better to find some directory that holds LINQ article for both languages ?

I was thinking of having a linq directory in docs\standard and move the articles in both languages there. For articles that are in only one language, It might be easy to write the snippets in the other language. So, at the end, the linq folders in csharp or visualbasic will be completely removed, and redirected to the new linq folder in standard. Currently, there is one article related to linq in docs\standard folder, it may be moved to that linq folder after creating it.

[mairaw]

This is similar to the issue #4728. The vendor team has started the consolidation of the LINQ to XML articles under standard/linq. You can see the progress here: https://github.com/dotnet/docs/tree/linq-to-xml

Next step was going to be to move into the other sections.

[mairaw]

I've opened https://github.com/dotnet/docs/pull/16969 so you can see what we're doing there and comment on the direction if wanted. But we're basically doing exactly what @Youssef1313 mentioned. Including the move of the standalone LINQ article from standard to standard\linq.

But that section is large, so it might take a while to finish and merge.

[mairaw]

Just found out that there dupe articles in other areas too. For example: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/hh534540(v=vs.140) has the links to the C# and VB version

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[Youssef1313]

@BillWagner This is still an issue. Consider re-opening to track merging the duplicate articles.