Question

i have this entity called BlogArticle which has a property called

public virtual ICollection<BlogComment> BlogComments { get; set; }

what i wanna do is access those properties of the blogcomments in my view but since it is in a ICollection i cannot itterate through it. (.count() does work.)

Any suggestions on this matter?

cheers.

Answer 1

You can enumerate the collection by using a foreach loop. If you need random access to the elements of the collection you can use the ToList() extension method. That will create a new list containing all the elements of the collection.

foreach (var blogComment in blogArticle.BlogComments) {
   // Access sequentially from first to last.
}

or

var blogComments = blogArticle.BlogComments.ToList();
for (var i = 0; i < blogComments.Count; ++i) {
  var blogComment = blogComments[i]; // Access by index - can be done in any order.
}