Question

I created the below function to get FirstName and LastName and place them into a string FullName.

My linq statement looks a bit funny as I am doing 2 queries on the same row to get the information I need.

Is there a better way of coding this?

public static string getMemberFullNamebyID(int memID)
{
    using (var ctx = new GPEntities())
    {
        string fname = string.Empty;
        string lname = string.Empty;

        fname = ctx.Members.Where(g => g.memID == memID).Select(g => g.memFirstName).FirstOrDefault();
        lname = ctx.Members.Where(g => g.memID == memID).Select(g => g.memLastName).FirstOrDefault();

        return (lname + ", " + lname).ToString();
    }
}

Answer 1

How about:

ctx.Members.Where(g => g.memID == memID)
    .Select(g => g.memFirstName + ", " + g.memLastName).FirstOrDefault()