Question

I am trying the to query my Status Update repository using the following

    var result = (from s in _dataContext.StatusUpdates
                  where s.Username == "friend1" && s.Username == "friend2" etc...
                  select s).ToList();

Instead of using s.Username == "friendN" continuously is there anyway I can pass a list or array or something like that rather that specifying each one, or can I use a foreach loop in the middle of the query.

Thanks

Answer 1

If you only need to check whether the Username property has some specified value, you can create a list of the values and then use method such as All or Any to check if some condition holds for any/all elements of the array.

Your example looks a bit suspicious though – the user name s.Username cannot be equal to multiple different strings. Did you want to check whether it is equal to any of the (specified) names? That could be written like this:

var friends = new[] { "friend1", "friend2", ... };
var result = 
  from s in dc.StatusUpdates 
  where friends.Any(fr => s.Username == fr)
  select s;

This returns all status updates such that the Username property is equal to any of the specified friend names (specified as an array, but you could use any IEnumerable<string>).