Question

I have a simple business object:

Crime 
     Date
     PersonsInvolved

I need a list of total PersonsInvolved per month. The data is for 1 year so year doesn’t need to be taken into account.

Jan 5
Feb 3
Mar 5

and so on

How is this done in Linq if I have an in memory collection like this:

List<Crime>() crimes;

Answer 1

var q =  from i in crimes
    group i by i.Date.ToString("MMM") into grp
    select new {Month = grp.Key, Count = grp.Sum(i => i.Persons)};