Question

I’m having a little trouble converting some LINQ to VB. I’ve taken a pass at figuring it out but I’ve been unsuccessful this moring thus far.

 var feeds = 
  from feed in feedXML.Descendants("item")
  select new
  {
    Date = DateTime.Parse(feed.Element("pubDate").Value)
                   .ToShortDateString(),
    Title = feed.Element("title").Value,
    Link = feed.Element("link").Value,
    Description = feed.Element("description").Value,
  };

Online code translators are not helping, and my unfamiliarly with VB LINQ is not very good. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

You need to:

1. Use the With keyword when projecting into an anonymous type.
2. Prefix property names with a dot.
3. Use a line continuation depending on your version of VB.NET (not needed in VB10). A line continuation is denoted by an underscore at the end of each line.

This yields:

Dim feeds = From feed in feedXML.Descendants("item")
            Select New With
            {
                .Date = DateTime.Parse(feed.Element("pubDate").Value).ToShortDateString(),
                .Title = feed.Element("title").Value,
                .Link = feed.Element("link").Value,
                .Description = feed.Element("description").Value
            }