Question

Greetings,

I’m looking for a way to convert

foreach (var sEvent in Events)
{
    sEvent.SomeId = 0;
}

to

Events.Set(m=>m.SomeId, 0); 

or something like this.

So basicly I want to make it a one line event that sets all “SomeId” to 0;

Is there any way?

Answer 1

If Events is a List<T> you can use:

Events.ForEach( m => m.SomeId = 0 );

If Events is IEnumerable, ForEach is not implemented, but you can of course make your own ForEach that works on IEnumerable yourself. The reason ForEach is not created for IEnumerable, is that they did not want to have extension method on IEnumerable with side effects (that altered the original collection).

Implementing ForEach on IEnumerable is easy enough:

public static IEnumerable<T> ForEach<T>(this IEnumerable<T> source, Action<T> action)
{
  foreach (T element in source) 
    action(element);
  return source;
}

This has to go into a static class just like all other extension methods.