Generation Operations

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