Projection Operators
LINQ query expressions extract values from data sources and then push results into a sequence of elements. This operation of pushing items into a sequence is known as projection. Select
is the projection operator for LINQ queries. Continuing the example of products shown in the previous section, the following query creates a new sequence containing all products names:
The query result is now an IEnumerable(Of String)
. If you need to create a sequence of objects, you can simply select each single item as follows:
This returns ...
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