Question

I ran into an error when trying to serialize a linq entitySet. To get around this i converted the entitySet to a list. The problem I have run into now is that it’s child entity sets are not converting to a list and when I try to serialize the parent those are now throwing an error. Does anyone know of a way to convert a linq entitySet AND it’s children to lists?

p.s. I’m new to linq so if any of this dosn’t make sense let me know

Answer 1

Just project onto new types:

var q = from e in Entities
        select new 
        {
            Id = e.Id,
            Name = e.Name,
            Children = from c in e.Children
                       select new 
                       {
                           Id = c.Id,
                           Name = c.Name,
                           // etc.
                       },
             // etc.
         };
var s = serializer.Serialize(q);