Question

int[] integers = new int[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 };

What is the difference between this :

var odd = from i in integers
          where i % 2 == 1
          select i;

and this :

var ODD = integers.Where(i => i % 2 == 1);

if there is no difference and just the faces are different, so why should it be possible at all? I mean what is the need of having two ways of doing it?

Answer 1

Nothing – the first is syntactic sugar for the second.

I use what ever makes the intention clear. Sometimes terseness is fine, sometimes the flow of the fluent methods, and at other times a query to express what I’m doing.