Question

I need to return the count for the below voters:

Users has many to many relationship with Voters. I would like to return Voters count related to Users. I’ve tried this: db.Users.Voters.Count() but fails miserably as it does not recognize .Voters.

Is there any way to do this directly?

Answer 1

I’m assuming .Voters is a property of a single User object, not a property of the Users collection. In that case one way would be:

db.Users.Sum(user => user.Voters.Count());

but that will double-count any voters that are shared by users. If instead you want a distinct count use

d.Users.SelectMany(user=>user.Voters).Distinct().Count();