We Keep Coding

Linq how to use a subSelect as a virtual table in FROM

There may be similar questions out here but none that I could find for doing a subSelect in the FROM clause as a virtual table.
Most of the columns I need are in one table. There are a few columns needed from different tables that I cannot join on without getting a Cartesian join.
Here is my SQL query:
SELECT meter_name, a.loc_id, a.loc_name, a.facility_name, meter_type
FROM meter_table, (SELECT loc_id, loc_name, facility_name
FROM facility_table
WHERE id = 101) a
WHERE meter_id = a.fac_id
I have no idea how to convert this into Linq and it must be done tonight for a demo in the morning.

Assume this represents your meter_table within your database
in this case each element of the list represents a record in the database table holding the appropriate attributes
i.e the table columns will become the properties of each object
List<Meter> meter_table = new List<Meter>();
Assume this represents the facility_table table you want to join with.
same goes here, each element of the list represents a record in the database table holding the appropriate attributes
i.e the table columns will become the properties of each object
List<Facility> facility_table = new List<Facility>();
then perform the inner join like so:
var query = from m in meter_table
join a in facility_table on m.meter_id equals a.fac_id
where a.id == 101
select new { meter_name = m.MeterName,
loc_id = a.LocId,
facility_name = a.FacilityName,
meter_type = m.MeterType
};
where m.MeterName, a.LocId, a.FacilityName, m.MeterType are properties of their respective types.
it's also worth noting the variable query references an IEnumerable of anonymous types. However, if you want to return an IEnumerable of strongly typed objects then feel free to define your own type with the appropriate properties then just change select new to:
select new typeName { /* assign values appropriately */}
of the above query.

Outerjoin with a table of foreign keys in EF Data-first approach

I have a table Users which contain user information. I have a table Products which contain product information. I have a table called UserProduct which acts as a junction table and whose fields are UserId and ProductId. I am using a Entity Framework database first approach.
I want to outerjoin using Linq to find the following data.
All Users in the Users table.
All Users who have bought a particular product in terms of a Boolean called isPurchased.
My thinking was to left outer join table User with UserProduct and get all users and whether they have a product something like this.
var result = from a in Users
join b in UserProduct(Not available through EF) on a.Id equals b.prodId into group1
from g1 in group1.DefaultIfEmpty()
select new
{
id = g1.Id,
isPurchased = g1.prodId != null
}.ToList();
However in EF mapping, the object UserProduct is not created and so I cannot use it directly in my Linq query? So how do I go about this? Is there a way I can use linq to join tables with the actual table name(UserProduct) instead of joining entities?

Assuming Users contains a property List<Products> products to represent the junction information, and a variable boughtProductId to represent the particular product:
var result = from u in Users
let isPurchased = u.products.Any(p => p.Id == boughtProductId)
select new {
id = isPurchased ? boughtProductId : null,
isPurchased
}.ToList();

Populate data in C# entity from different tables

I've three tables:
Car
Parts
SubParts
Now I want to get data from all the three tables, which is easy by performing inner join I can easily get that. My SQL query is
Select C.Id AS CarId,C.Name AS CarName
, P.Id AS PartsId,P.Name AS PartsName
, SP.Id AS SubPartsId,SP.Name AS SubPartsName
from Car C
INNER JOIN Parts P on C.Id=P.CarId
INNER JOIN SubParts SP on P.Id=SP.PartsId
In C# I've same entities with same properties as that of table columns and the same name as that of the table, now I want to populate data from a single query in three different entities without iterating each record returned from SQL query. Is there any that can be done in using ADO.NET or Enterprise Library(more preferable).

Use the join from LINQ.
var innerJoinQuery =
from car in cars
join part in parts on car.Id equals part.CarId
join subPart in subParts on part.Id equals subPart.PartId
select new {
CarId = car.Id,
CarName = car.Name,
PartsId = part.Id,
PartsName = part.Name,
SubPartsId = subPart.Id,
SubPartsName = subPart.Name
};

Updating multiple tables at the same time in Linq-to-SQL

How do I update two tables at the same time using Linq-to-SQL?
var z = from a in db.Products
join b in db.ProductSubcategories on
a.ProductSubcategoryID equals b.ProductSubcategoryID
join d in db.ProductCategories on
b.ProductCategoryID equals d.ProductCategoryID
select new { ProductName = a.Name, ProductCategory = d.Name,
ProductSubCategory = b.Name, Cost = a.StandardCost,
discontinuedDate = a.DiscontinuedDate,
ProductId=a.ProductID };

You have to update individual records from each table and then execute db.SubmitChanges();
In your query the output is an anonymous type, not a table type connected to the db context.
If you think in terms of SQL, linq2sql works pretty much the same. You can select a record set with a join, but you cannot update directly on this. You need to break it up and modify entries directly on Products, ProductCategories and ProductSubCategories, which equals the tables in your database.
If you want to modify a Product in Products then you have to modify the properties of that type, and not the anonymous type (joined type).

Linq to Sql - Populate JOIN result into a List

I am not sure if this can be done, but here's the scenario.
I want to turn this sql into linq:
SELECT * FROM Department d
INNER JOIN Employee e ON e.DepartmentID = d.DepartmentID
Department - Employee is 1 to many relationship.
I have created a custom object that I would like to populate the result into.
public class DepartmentSummary
{
public Department Department { get; set; }
public List<Employee> Employees {get; set;}
}
The Linq I came up with is
var result = from d in dba.Department
join e in dba.Employee d.DepartmentID equals e.DepartmentID into j1
select new DepartmentSummary
{
Department = d,
Employees = j1.ToList()
};
I tried it out and it's not working. Can anyone shed some light for me please? I would like to perform an inner join between Department and Employee. For each Department in the resultset, I would like to create one DepartmentSummary object which holds that department and a list of employees belonging to that department.
Does Linq provides an ad hoc solution for this or must I iterates through the result set and create a list of DepartmentSummary manually?
Thanks,
EDIT:
Looks like this works for me
var result = from d in dba.Department
join e in dba.Employee d.DepartmentID equals e.DepartmentID into j1
where j1.Count() > 0
select new DepartmentSummary
{
Department = d,
Employees = j1.ToList()
};

The thing is that you're not really taking one SQL and trying to create a Linq-query out of it.
If you were, you'd notice that your SQL query does not really produce one row per department, but it will repeat the department information for each employee in that department.
Now, an initial naive look would suggest you use a group-by clause, since that would allow you to split the data into individual groupings for each department, but groupings in SQL does not really give you a key+all-matching-rows type of result, rather it allows you to do aggregate calculations, like "for each department, how many employees do I have".
So, in order to do what you want, you need to basically do a normal join, which will give you each employee, coupled with the appropriate department information (ie. each employee will be linked to his/her department), and then you need to construct the rest of the data structure yourself.
Now, having said that, if you have the proper relationships set in your data context related classes, each department should already have some kind of property that contains all employees in that department, so perhaps the simple query is just "give me all departments", and then you can, for each department, retrieve the employees?
Of course, doing that would likely execute one SQL for each department, but in this case, you're back to "give me all employees with their department information" and you have to build code to handle the rest.

LINQ to SQL doesn't understand your ToList() call, but you might be able to select the sequence of joined elements and then use LINQ to Objects (via AsEnumerable()) to map to your DepartmentSummary object:
var qResult = from d in dba.Department
join e in dba.Employee d.DepartmentID equals e.DepartmentID into j1
select new
{
Department = d,
Employees = j1
};
var result = from d in qResult.AsEnumerable()
select new DepartmentSummary()
{
Department = d.Department,
Employees = e.Employees.ToList()
};

Sounds like you're looking to get around lazy loading?
DataLoadOptions dlo = new DataLoadOptions();
dlo.LoadWith<Department>(d => d.Employees);
using (var dba = new MyDataContext())
{
dba.LoadOptions = dlo;
var result = from d in dba.Department
select d;
}
Now, if you don't have a relationship defined between Department and Employees (the Linq2Sql designer will do this for you if you have database relationships setup) then you should look into doing that. It makes it all dramatically easier. In fact, you don't even need your campaign summary.

This problem is due to the nature of the query. When you join Department to Employee, you'll get back one record for every Employee. This means that your ToList() statement is expecting multiple employees per department, but due to the join, always getting one.
Change your query to
var result =
from d in dba.Department
select new tCampaignSummary
{
Department = d,
Employees = dba.Employee.Where(e => e.DepartmentID ==
d.DepartmentID).ToList()
};
I've tested this and it works.
What it does differently is selects only one record per Department (not per employee) then it gets the zero to many corresponding employees for each dept and converts them to a list.
Good luck!
EDIT
As requested, here is the generated SQL:
SELECT [t0].*, [t1].*
(
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM [dbo].[Employee] AS [t2]
WHERE [t2].[DepartmentID] = [t0].[DepartmentID]
) AS [value]
FROM [dbo].[Department] AS [t0]
LEFT OUTER JOIN [dbo].[Employee] AS [t1]
ON [t1].[DepartmentID] = [t0].[DepartmentID]
ORDER BY [t0].[DepartmentID], [t1].[IndexID]
The only modification is that LINQ will not do [t0].*, instead it will enumerate each field. Since I had to guess at the fields, I left them out to make the SQL clearer.