Question

I have the following Linq statement with ‘Group by’ clause and would like to know how to introduce a let or any other statement to avoid repeating the sub query, lifecycleEvents.Where(i => i.LifecycleEventId == grouping.Key).First() in the following example

var completionTimeModels =
    from timeline in processTimelines 
    group timeline by timeline.LifecycleEventId into grouping
    select new CompletionTimeViewModel()
    {
        // How to avoid repeating the same query to find the life cycle event?
        Name = lifecycleEvents.Where(i => i.LifecycleEventId == grouping.Key).First().LifecycleEventName,
        DisplayName = lifecycleEvents.Where(i => i.LifecycleEventId == grouping.Key).First().LifecycleEventDisplayName
    };

Answer 1

var completionTimeModels =
from timeline in processTimelines

group timeline by timeline.LifecycleEventId into grouping
let foo = lifecycleEvents.First(i => i.LifecycleEventId == grouping.Key)
select new CompletionTimeViewModel()
{
    Name = foo.LifecycleEventName,
    DisplayName = foo.LifecycleEventDisplayName
};