Calling a method inside a Linq query

Question

I want to insert into my table a column named \'S\' that will get some string value based on a value it gets from a table column.

For example: for each ID (a.z

Answer 1

That is an old question, but I see nobody mention one "hack", that allows to call methods during select without reiterating. Idea is to use constructor and in constructor you can call whatever you wish (at least it works fine in LINQ with NHibernate, not sure about LINQ2SQL or EF, but I guess it should be the same). Below I have source code for benchmark program, it looks like reiterating approach in my case is about twice slower than constructor approach and I guess there's no wonder - my business logic was minimal, so things like iteration and memory allocation matters.

Also I wished there was better way to say, that this or that should not be tried to execute on database,

// Here are the results of selecting sum of 1 million ints on my machine:
// Name    Iterations      Percent    
// reiterate       294     53.3575317604356%      
// constructor     551     100%

public class A
{
    public A()
    {            
    }

    public A(int b, int c)
    {
        Result = Sum(b, c);
    }

    public int Result { get; set; }

    public static int Sum(int source1, int source2)
    {
        return source1 + source2;
    }
}

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var range = Enumerable.Range(1, 1000000).ToList();

        BenchmarkIt.Benchmark.This("reiterate", () =>
            {
                var tst = range
                    .Select(x => new { b = x, c = x })
                    .AsEnumerable()
                    .Select(x => new A
                    {
                        Result = A.Sum(x.b, x.c)
                    })
                    .ToList();
            })
            .Against.This("constructor", () =>
            {
                var tst = range
                    .Select(x => new A(x, x))
                    .ToList();
            })
            .For(60)
            .Seconds()
            .PrintComparison();

        Console.ReadKey();
    }
}