I using Dynamic Linq to do some database queries and it\'s working really well up to now. I can pass a string to a Select to select fields like so:
If you do YourStuff.Cast, you will receive IEnumerable, and there is no property Foo on the type object.
The question you might be asking, how can you get IList?! You can do it this way:
// for IEnumerable
public static IList ToAnonymousList(this IEnumerable enumerable)
{
var enumerator = enumerable.GetEnumerator();
if (!enumerator.MoveNext())
throw new Exception("?? No elements??");
var value = enumerator.Current;
var returnList = (IList) typeof (List<>)
.MakeGenericType(value.GetType())
.GetConstructor(Type.EmptyTypes)
.Invoke(null);
returnList.Add(value);
while (enumerator.MoveNext())
returnList.Add(enumerator.Current);
return returnList;
}
// for IQueryable
public static IList ToAnonymousList(this IQueryable source)
{
if (source == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("source");
var returnList = (IList) typeof (List<>)
.MakeGenericType(source.ElementType)
.GetConstructor(Type.EmptyTypes)
.Invoke(null);
foreach (var elem in source)
returnList.Add(elem);
return returnList;
}
It's a simple extension method that can later be used, as such:
var test = (new[]
{
new
{
Property1 = "10",
Property2 = "10",
Property3 = 1
}
}
.Select("New(Property1, Property2)"))
.ToAnonymousList();