Combine LINQ queries

Question

I\'m in the process of making a small query thing for a set of results of files.

public class f_results
    {
        public String name { get; set; }
               


        

Answer 1

At least I suggest to remove the .ToList() invokes everywhere. As LINQ has a deferred invocation, it will iterate once, even you have:

var foundfiles = from p in foundfiles where p.size >= sz select p ;
foundfiles = from p in foundfiles where p.mdate >= test select p

Update (in that case order by should be put after all filters)

But if you write:

var foundfiles = (from p in foundfiles where p.size >= sz orderby p.size descending select p).ToList() ;
foundfiles = (from p in foundfiles where p.mdate >= test select p).ToList();

It will iterate two times - and that might be a serious performance problem.

But I don't think the code will look much simpler if you make this code as a single query.

Also, why are you catching all exceptions? You shouldn't do that.