Question

I have the follow Linq query … which executes correctly:

from t in Tasks where LookupTaskStarted(t.TaskId) == true select new {      t.TaskId,      t.Number,      Started = LookupTaskStarted(t.TaskId) } 

Is there anyway to create this as a property on the Linq-To-Sql class? Or do I always have to reference it like this?

Answer 1

I don’t have the answer to your question, but I have a refactoring suggestion. Instead of calling LookupTaskStarted() twice, you can record the value with a let clause:

from t in Tasks let started = LookupTaskStarted(t.TaskId) where started select new {     T.TaskId,     t.Number,     Started = started } 

After writing that, I realized that if you are filtering by started, you don’t need the Started property because all of them will be true.