Question

I have a class which contains a generic dictionary:

protected Dictionary<K,T> Data { get; set;}

I wish to allow clients of this class to perform LINQ queries without having to return the Dictionary. I had look at AsQueryable() but that doesn’t seems to do what I wish.

An example of the code I would like to write would be:

typeRepo.Query().Where( x => x.name == "wire")

Answer 1

It seems like the dictionary is holding a model (T) by its key (K). The code you’ll need is:

public IQueryable<T> Query
{
    get { return Data.Values.AsQueryable(); }
}