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Asked: 2026-06-02T11:51:03+00:00

Really basic LINQ question but can someone enlighten me as to how it handles

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Really basic LINQ question but can someone enlighten me as to how it handles data when it’s taken from multiple database tables.

For example if you have a Products tables then using the DBML you get a nice Product object which you can query, update, create etc. (Product.Name, Product.Price etc.) All very nice.

However, if I have a LINQ query that joins Product on a bunch of other tables and brings me back the columns from those tables. There’s no 1:1 mapping of DB table to object possible so what is it returned as?

Eg. If it was a combo of Product and Customer how would I query, for example, the customer name:

object.customerName ?

Is it returned as a dataset by default?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You would generally (that’s: often, but not always.) compose anonymous types which your query will return a collection of. You name the properties, say, and can then access them as you would with any other type.

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