March 27, 2013

LINQ Query Examples

This post contains many samples of LINQ queries. Here I show queries related to:

  1. Simple Where Clause
  2. Join and Simple Where Clause
  3. Distinct Operator
  4. Simple Inner Join
  5. Self Join
  6. Double or Multiple Joins
  7. Join using Entity Fields
  8. Late-Binding Left Join
  9. Equals Operator
  10. Not Equals Operator
  11. Method Based LINQ Query with Where Clause
  12. Greater Than Operator
  13. Greater Than or Equals and Less Than or Equals Operator
  14. Contain Operator
  15. Does Not Contain Operator
  16. StartsWith and EndsWith Operator
  17. AND and OR Operator
  18. OrderBy Operator
  19. First and Single Operator
  20. Retrieve Formatted Values
  21. Skip and Take Operator without Paging
  22. FirstOrDefault or SingleOrDefault Operator
  23. Self Join with condition on Linked Entity
  24. Transformation in Where Clause
  25. Paging Sort
  26. Retrieve Related Entity Column (1 to N Relationship)
  27. .Value to Retrieve the Value of Attribute
  28. Multiple Projections, new data type casting to different types
  29. GetAttributeValue Method
  30. Math Methods
  31. Multiple Select and Where Clauses
  32. Select Many
  33. String Operation
  34. Two Where Clauses
  35. Load Property to Retrieve Related Products
All codes are written in C#, if you want code in VB.Net then convert your code here
  • Simple Where Clause
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_where1 = from a in svcContext.AccountSet
                    where a.Name.Contains("Contoso")
                    select a;
 foreach (var a in query_where1)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(a.Name + " " + a.Address1_City);
 }
}
  • Join and Simple Where Clause
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_where3 = from c in svcContext.ContactSet
                    join a in svcContext.AccountSet
                    on c.ContactId equals a.PrimaryContactId.Id
                    where a.Name.Contains("Contoso")
                    where c.LastName.Contains("Smith")
                    select new
                    {
                     account_name = a.Name,
                     contact_name = c.LastName
                    };

 foreach (var c in query_where3)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine("acct: " +
   c.account_name +
   "\t\t\t" +
   "contact: " +
   c.contact_name);
 }
}
  • Distinct Operator
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_distinct = (from c in svcContext.ContactSet
                       select c.LastName).Distinct();
 foreach (var c in query_distinct)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(c);
 }
}
  • Simple Inner Join
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_join1 = from c in svcContext.ContactSet
                   join a in svcContext.AccountSet
                  on c.ContactId equals a.PrimaryContactId.Id
                   select new
                   {
                    c.FullName,
                    c.Address1_City,
                    a.Name,
                    a.Address1_Name
                   };
 foreach (var c in query_join1)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine("acct: " +
   c.Name +
   "\t\t\t" +
   "contact: " +
   c.FullName);
 }
}
  • Self Join
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_join5 = from a in svcContext.AccountSet
                   join a2 in svcContext.AccountSet
                   on a.ParentAccountId.Id equals a2.AccountId

                   select new
                   {
                    account_name = a.Name,
                    account_city = a.Address1_City
                   };
 foreach (var c in query_join5)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(c.account_name + "  " + c.account_city);
 }
}
  • Double or Multiple Joins
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_join4 = from a in svcContext.AccountSet
                   join c in svcContext.ContactSet
                   on a.PrimaryContactId.Id equals c.ContactId
                   join l in svcContext.LeadSet
                   on a.OriginatingLeadId.Id equals l.LeadId
                   select new
                   {
                    contact_name = c.FullName,
                    account_name = a.Name,
                    lead_name = l.FullName
                   };
 foreach (var c in query_join4)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(c.contact_name +
   "  " +
   c.account_name +
   "  " +
   c.lead_name);
 }
}
  • Join using Entity Fields
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var list_join = (from a in svcContext.AccountSet
                  join c in svcContext.ContactSet
                  on a.PrimaryContactId.Id equals c.ContactId
                  where a.Name == "Contoso Ltd" &&
                  a.Address1_Name == "Contoso Pharmaceuticals"
                  select a).ToList();
 foreach (var c in list_join)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine("Account " + list_join[0].Name
      + " and it's primary contact "
      + list_join[0].PrimaryContactId.Id);
 }
}
  • Late-Binding Left Join
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_join8 = from a in svcContext.AccountSet
                   join c in svcContext.ContactSet
                   on a.PrimaryContactId.Id equals c.ContactId
                   into gr
                   from c_joined in gr.DefaultIfEmpty()
                   select new
                   {
                    contact_name = c_joined.FullName,
                    account_name = a.Name
                   };
 foreach (var c in query_join8)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(c.contact_name + "  " + c.account_name);
 }
}
  • Equals Operator
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_equals1 = from c in svcContext.ContactSet
                     where c.FirstName.Equals("Colin")
                     select new
                     {
                      c.FirstName,
                      c.LastName,
                      c.Address1_City
                     };
 foreach (var c in query_equals1)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(c.FirstName +
   " " + c.LastName +
   " " + c.Address1_City);
 }
}
  • Not Equals Operator
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_ne1 = from c in svcContext.ContactSet
                 where c.Address1_City != "Redmond"
                 select new
                 {
                  c.FirstName,
                  c.LastName,
                  c.Address1_City
                 };
 foreach (var c in query_ne1)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(c.FirstName + " " +
   c.LastName + " " + c.Address1_City);
 }
}
  • Method Based LINQ Query with Where Clause
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var methodResults = svcContext.ContactSet
  .Where(a => a.LastName == "Smith");
 var methodResults2 = svcContext.ContactSet
  .Where(a => a.LastName.StartsWith("Smi"));
 Console.WriteLine();
 Console.WriteLine("Method query using Lambda expression");
 Console.WriteLine("---------------------------------------");
 foreach (var a in methodResults)
 {
  Console.WriteLine("Name: " + a.FirstName + " " + a.LastName);
 }
 Console.WriteLine("---------------------------------------");
 Console.WriteLine("Method query 2 using Lambda expression");
 Console.WriteLine("---------------------------------------");
 foreach (var a in methodResults2)
 {
  Console.WriteLine("Name: " + a.Attributes["firstname"] +
   " " + a.Attributes["lastname"]);
 }
}
  • Greater Than Operator
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_gt1 = from c in svcContext.ContactSet
                 where c.Anniversary > new DateTime(2010, 2, 5)
                 select new
                 {
                  c.FirstName,
                  c.LastName,
                  c.Address1_City
                 };

 foreach (var c in query_gt1)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(c.FirstName + " " +
   c.LastName + " " + c.Address1_City);
 }
}
  • Greater Than or Equals and Less Than or Equals Operator
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_gele1 = from c in svcContext.ContactSet
                   where c.CreditLimit.Value >= 200 &&
                   c.CreditLimit.Value <= 400
                   select new
                   {
                    c.FirstName,
                    c.LastName
                   };
 foreach (var c in query_gele1)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(c.FirstName + " " + c.LastName);
 }
}
  • Contain Operator
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_contains1 = from c in svcContext.ContactSet
                       where c.Description.Contains("Alpine")
                       select new
                       {
                        c.FirstName,
                        c.LastName
                       };
 foreach (var c in query_contains1)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(c.FirstName + " " + c.LastName);
 }
}
  • Does Not Contain Operator
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_contains2 = from c in svcContext.ContactSet
                       where !c.Description.Contains("Coho")
                       select new
                       {
                        c.FirstName,
                        c.LastName
                       };
 foreach (var c in query_contains2)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(c.FirstName + " " + c.LastName);
 }
}
  • StartsWith and EndsWith Operator
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_startswith1 = from c in svcContext.ContactSet
                         where c.FirstName.StartsWith("Bri")
                         select new
                         {
                          c.FirstName,
                          c.LastName
                         };
 foreach (var c in query_startswith1)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(c.FirstName + " " + c.LastName);
 }
}
  • AND and OR Operator
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_andor1 = from c in svcContext.ContactSet
                    where ((c.Address1_City == "Redmond" ||
                    c.Address1_City == "Bellevue") &&
                    (c.CreditLimit.Value != null &&
                    c.CreditLimit.Value >= 200))
                    select c;

 foreach (var c in query_andor1)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(c.LastName + ", " + c.FirstName + " " +
   c.Address1_City + " " + c.CreditLimit.Value);
 }
}
  • OrderBy Operator
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_orderby1 = from c in svcContext.ContactSet
                      where !c.CreditLimit.Equals(null)
                      orderby c.CreditLimit descending
                      select new
                      {
                       limit = c.CreditLimit,
                       first = c.FirstName,
                       last = c.LastName
                      };
 foreach (var c in query_orderby1)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(c.limit.Value + " " +
   c.last + ", " + c.first);
 }
}
  • First and Single Operator
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 Contact firstcontact = svcContext.ContactSet.First();

 Contact singlecontact = svcContext.ContactSet.Single(c => c.ContactId == _contactId1);
 System.Console.WriteLine(firstcontact.LastName + ", " +
  firstcontact.FirstName + " is the first contact");
 System.Console.WriteLine("==========================");
 System.Console.WriteLine(singlecontact.LastName + ", " +
  singlecontact.FirstName + " is the single contact");
}
  • Retrieve Formatted Values
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var list_retrieve1 = from c in svcContext.ContactSet
                      where c.ContactId == _contactId1
                      select new { StatusReason = c.FormattedValues["statuscode"] };
 foreach (var c in list_retrieve1)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine("Status: " + c.StatusReason);
 }
}
  • Skip and Take Operator without Paging
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{

 var query_skip = (from c in svcContext.ContactSet
                   where c.LastName != "Parker"
                   orderby c.FirstName
                   select new
                       {
                        last = c.LastName,
                        first = c.FirstName
                       }).Skip(2).Take(2);
 foreach (var c in query_skip)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(c.first + " " + c.last);
 }
}
  • FirstOrDefault or SingleOrDefault Operator
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{

 Contact firstorcontact = svcContext.ContactSet.FirstOrDefault();

 Contact singleorcontact = svcContext.ContactSet
  .SingleOrDefault(c => c.ContactId == _contactId1);


 System.Console.WriteLine(firstorcontact.FullName +
  " is the first contact");
 System.Console.WriteLine("==========================");
 System.Console.WriteLine(singleorcontact.FullName +
  " is the single contact");
}
  • Self Join with condition on Linked Entity
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_joincond = from a1 in svcContext.AccountSet
                      join a2 in svcContext.AccountSet
                      on a1.ParentAccountId.Id equals a2.AccountId
                      where a2.AccountId == _accountId1
                      select new { Account = a1, Parent = a2 };
 foreach (var a in query_joincond)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(a.Account.Name + " " + a.Parent.Name);
 }
}
  • Transformation in Where Clause
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_wheretrans = from c in svcContext.ContactSet
                        where c.ContactId == _contactId1 &&
                        c.Anniversary > DateTime.Parse("1/1/2010")
                        select new
                        {
                         c.FirstName,
                         c.LastName
                        };
 foreach (var c in query_wheretrans)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(c.FirstName + " " + c.LastName);
 }
}
  • Paging Sort
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_pagingsort1 = (from c in svcContext.ContactSet
                          where c.LastName != "Parker"
                          orderby c.LastName ascending,
                          c.FirstName descending
                          select new { c.FirstName, c.LastName })
                          .Skip(2).Take(2);
 foreach (var c in query_pagingsort1)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(c.FirstName + " " + c.LastName);
 }
}
  • Retrieve Related Entity Column (1 to N Relationship)
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_retrieve1 = from c in svcContext.ContactSet
                       join a in svcContext.AccountSet
                       on c.ContactId equals a.PrimaryContactId.Id
                       where c.ContactId != _contactId1
                       select new { Contact = c, Account = a };
 foreach (var c in query_retrieve1)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine("Acct: " + c.Account.Name +
   "\t\t" + "Contact: " + c.Contact.FullName);
 }
}
  • .Value to Retrieve the Value of Attribute
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{

 var query_value = from c in svcContext.ContactSet
                   where c.ContactId != _contactId2
                   select new
                   {
                    ContactId = c.ContactId != null ?
                     c.ContactId.Value : Guid.Empty,
                    NumberOfChildren = c.NumberOfChildren != null ?
                     c.NumberOfChildren.Value : default(int),
                    CreditOnHold = c.CreditOnHold != null ?
                     c.CreditOnHold.Value : default(bool),
                    Anniversary = c.Anniversary != null ?
                     c.Anniversary.Value : default(DateTime)
                   };

 foreach (var c in query_value)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(c.ContactId + " " + c.NumberOfChildren + 
   " " + c.CreditOnHold + " " + c.Anniversary);
 }
}
  • Multiple Projections, new data type casting to different types
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_projections = from c in svcContext.ContactSet
                         where c.ContactId == _contactId1
                         && c.NumberOfChildren != null && 
                         c.Anniversary.Value != null
                         select new
                         {
                          Contact = new Contact { 
                           LastName = c.LastName, 
                           NumberOfChildren = c.NumberOfChildren 
                          },
                          NumberOfChildren = (double)c.NumberOfChildren,
                          Anniversary = c.Anniversary.Value.AddYears(1),
                         };
 foreach (var c in query_projections)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(c.Contact.LastName + " " + 
   c.NumberOfChildren + " " + c.Anniversary);
 }
}
  • GetAttributeValue Method
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_getattrib = from c in svcContext.ContactSet
                       where c.GetAttributeValue<Guid>("contactid") != _contactId1
                       select new
                       {
                        ContactId = c.GetAttributeValue<Guid?>("contactid"),
                        NumberOfChildren = c.GetAttributeValue<int?>("numberofchildren"),
                        CreditOnHold = c.GetAttributeValue<bool?>("creditonhold"),
                        Anniversary = c.GetAttributeValue<DateTime?>("anniversary"),
                       };

 foreach (var c in query_getattrib)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(c.ContactId + " " + c.NumberOfChildren + 
   " " + c.CreditOnHold + " " + c.Anniversary);
 }
}
  • Math Methods
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_math = from c in svcContext.ContactSet
                  where c.ContactId != _contactId2
                  && c.Address1_Latitude != null && 
                  c.Address1_Longitude != null
                  select new
                  {
                   Round = Math.Round(c.Address1_Latitude.Value),
                   Floor = Math.Floor(c.Address1_Latitude.Value),
                   Ceiling = Math.Ceiling(c.Address1_Latitude.Value),
                   Abs = Math.Abs(c.Address1_Latitude.Value),
                  };
 foreach (var c in query_math)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(c.Round + " " + c.Floor + 
   " " + c.Ceiling + " " + c.Abs);
 }
}
  • Multiple Select and Where Clauses
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_multiselect = svcContext.IncidentSet
                        .Where(i => i.IncidentId != _incidentId1)
                        .Select(i => i.incident_customer_accounts)
                        .Where(a => a.AccountId != _accountId2)
                        .Select(a => a.account_primary_contact)
                        .OrderBy(c => c.FirstName)
                        .Select(c => c.ContactId);
 foreach (var c in query_multiselect)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(c.GetValueOrDefault());
 }
}
  • Select Many
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_selectmany = svcContext.ContactSet
                        .Where(c => c.ContactId != _contactId2)
                        .SelectMany(c => c.account_primary_contact)
                        .OrderBy(a => a.Name);
 foreach (var c in query_selectmany)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(c.AccountId + " " + c.Name);
 }
}
  • String Operation
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_string = from c in svcContext.ContactSet
                    where c.ContactId == _contactId2
                    select new
                    {
                     IndexOf = c.FirstName.IndexOf("contact"),
                     Insert = c.FirstName.Insert(1, "Insert"),
                     Remove = c.FirstName.Remove(1, 1),
                     Substring = c.FirstName.Substring(1, 1),
                     ToUpper = c.FirstName.ToUpper(),
                     ToLower = c.FirstName.ToLower(),
                     TrimStart = c.FirstName.TrimStart(),
                     TrimEnd = c.FirstName.TrimEnd(),
                    };

 foreach (var c in query_string)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(c.IndexOf + "\n" + c.Insert + "\n" + 
   c.Remove + "\n" + c.Substring + "\n"
                           + c.ToUpper + "\n" + c.ToLower + 
                           "\n" + c.TrimStart + " " + c.TrimEnd);
 }
}
  • Two Where Clauses
using (ServiceContext svcContext = new ServiceContext(_serviceProxy))
{
 var query_twowhere = from a in svcContext.AccountSet
                      join c in svcContext.ContactSet 
                      on a.PrimaryContactId.Id equals c.ContactId
                      where c.LastName == "Smith" && c.CreditOnHold != null
                      where a.Name == "Contoso Ltd"
                      orderby a.Name
                      select a;
 foreach (var c in query_twowhere)
 {
  System.Console.WriteLine(c.AccountId + " " + c.Name);
 }
}
  • Load Property to Retrieve Related Products
Contact benAndrews = svcContext.ContactSet.Where(c => c.FullName == "Ben Andrews").FirstOrDefault();
if (benAndrews != null)
{
 //benAndrews.Contact_Tasks is null until LoadProperty is used.
 svcContext.LoadProperty(benAndrews, "Contact_Tasks");
 Task benAndrewsFirstTask = benAndrews.Contact_Tasks.FirstOrDefault();
 if (benAndrewsFirstTask != null)
 {
  Console.WriteLine("Ben Andrews first task with Subject: '{0}' retrieved.", benAndrewsFirstTask.Subject);
 }
}

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