Question

imagine to have a class (and corresponding db table) as follows

class Price{
    int ItemID;
    int ItemTypeID;
    string ItemName;
    string ItemTypeName;
    float Price;
}

I am seraching for a new to query it via LINQ in order to get the list of distinct Items (possibly with the use of Take() and Skip() methods) and nested the list of all associated prices.

Any suggestion?

EDIT: To make the question simpler here’s an example

Imagine to have 3 “prices” as following

1, 1, Ball, Blue, 10 
1, 2, Ball, Red,  20 
2, 1, Frisbee, Blue, 30

I would like to put them in a simplified structure

List<Item>

where

class Item
{
    string ItemName;
    string ItemTypeName;
    List<Price> Prices;
}

and

class Price
{
    float Price;
}

Answer 1

It sounds like maybe you want a GroupBy. Try something like this.

var result = dbContext.Prices
    .GroupBy(p => new {p.ItemName, p.ItemTypeName)
    .Select(g => new Item
                     {
                         ItemName = g.Key.ItemName,
                         ItemTypeName = g.Key.ItemTypeName,
                         Prices = g.Select(p => new Price 
                                                    {
                                                        Price = p.Price
                                                    }
                                           ).ToList()

                     })
     .Skip(x)
     .Take(y)
     .ToList();