How does Entity Framework manage mapping query result to anonymous type?

Question

Consider the following example LINQ to entity query

from history in entities.foreignuserhistory
select new { history.displayname, login=history.username, his         


        

Answer 1

Updated the reflection on this for EF 4.4 (5-RC)

full post at http://imaginarydevelopment.blogspot.com/2012/06/compose-complex-inserts-from-select.html

using this functionality/logic for doing a bulk insert from a select with some parameters provided

int Insert(IQueryable query,IQueryable targetSet)
{
    var oQuery=(ObjectQuery)this.QueryProvider.CreateQuery(query.Expression);
    var sql=oQuery.ToTraceString();
    var propertyPositions = GetPropertyPositions(oQuery);

    var targetSql=((ObjectQuery)targetSet).ToTraceString();
    var queryParams=oQuery.Parameters.ToArray();
    System.Diagnostics.Debug.Assert(targetSql.StartsWith("SELECT"));
    var queryProperties=query.ElementType.GetProperties();
    var selectParams=sql.Substring(0,sql.IndexOf("FROM "));
    var selectAliases=Regex.Matches(selectParams,@"\sAS \[([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)\]").Cast().Select(m=>m.Groups[1].Value).ToArray();

    var from=targetSql.Substring(targetSql.LastIndexOf("FROM [")+("FROM [".Length-1));
    var fromAlias=from.Substring(from.LastIndexOf("AS ")+"AS ".Length);
    var target=targetSql.Substring(0,targetSql.LastIndexOf("FROM ["));
    target=target.Replace("SELECT","INSERT INTO "+from+" (")+")";
    target=target.Replace(fromAlias+".",string.Empty);
    target=Regex.Replace(target,@"\sAS \[[a-zA-z0-9]+\]",string.Empty);
    var insertParams=target.Substring(target.IndexOf('('));
    target = target.Substring(0, target.IndexOf('('));
    var names=Regex.Matches(insertParams,@"\[([a-zA-Z0-9]+)\]");

    var remaining=names.Cast().Select(m=>m.Groups[1].Value).Where(m=>queryProperties.Select(qp=>qp.Name).Contains(m)).ToArray(); //scrape out items that the anonymous select doesn't include a name/value for

      //selectAliases[propertyPositions[10]]
      //remaining[10]
    var insertParamsOrdered = remaining.Select((s, i) => new { Position = propertyPositions[i], s })
       .OrderBy(o => o.Position).Select(x => x.s).ToArray();
   var insertParamsDelimited = insertParamsOrdered.Aggregate((s1, s2) => s1 + "," + s2);
   var commandText = target + "(" + insertParamsDelimited + ")" + sql;
   var result=this.ExecuteStoreCommand(commandText,queryParams.Select(qp=>new System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter{ ParameterName=qp.Name, Value=qp.Value}).ToArray());
   return result;
}