Question

Is there a way to do the following using LINQ?

foreach (var c in collection) {     c.PropertyToSet = value; } 

To clarify, I want to iterate through each object in a collection and then update a property on each object.

My use case is I have a bunch of comments on a blog post, and I want to iterate through each comment on a blog post and set the datetime on the blog post to be +10 hours. I could do it in SQL, but I want to keep it in the business layer.

Answer 1

While you can use a ForEach extension method, if you want to use just the framework you can do

collection.Select(c => {c.PropertyToSet = value; return c;}).ToList(); 

The ToList is needed in order to evaluate the select immediately due to lazy evaluation.