Question

I have the following object in a list:

public class DemoClass
{
    public int GroupKey { get; set; }
    public string DemoString { get; set; }
    public object SomeOtherProperty { get; set; }
}

Now, I want to create following dictionary out of it:

Dictionary<int, List<DemoClass>>

I want to group the List<DemoClass> by the property GroupKey, but I don’t understand how this is done and some help.

After thinking a bit, I achieved the needed behaviour with:

var groupedDemoClasses = from demoClass in mySepcialVariableWhichIsAListOfDemoClass
                            group demoClass by demoClass.GroupKey
                            into groupedDemoClass
                            select groupedDemoClass;
var neededDictionary = groupedDemoClass.ToDictionary(gdc => gdc.Key, gdc => gdc.ToList());

but, is there a way to make this into a single statement?

Answer 1

var groupedDemoClasses = (from demoClass in mySepcialVariableWhichIsAListOfDemoClass
                          group demoClass by demoClass.GroupKey
                          into groupedDemoClass
                          select groupedDemoClass).ToDictionary(gdc => gdc.Key, gdc => gdc.ToList());

This one will work !!!