Question

from x in myCollection
    group x by x.Id into y
    select new { 
       Id = y.Key, 
       Quantity = y.Sum(x => x.Quantity)
    };

How would you write the above as a lambda expression? I’m stuck on the group into part.

Answer 1

Query continuations (select…into and group…into, but not join…into) are equivalent to just splitting up the query expression. So I like to think of your example as:

var tmp = from x in myCollection
          group x by x.Id;
var result = from y in tmp
             select new { 
               Id = y.Key, 
               Quantity = y.Sum(x => x.Quantity)
             };

Change those into dot notation:

var tmp = myCollection.GroupBy(x => x.Id);
var result = tmp.Select(y => new { 
               Id = y.Key, 
               Quantity = y.Sum(x => x.Quantity)
             });

Then you could combine them back:

var tmp = myCollection.GroupBy(x => x.Id)
                      .Select(y => new { 
                                Id = y.Key, 
                                Quantity = y.Sum(x => x.Quantity)
                              });

Once you work out what the C# compiler does with query expressions, the rest is relatively straightforward 🙂