How do you perform a CROSS JOIN with LINQ to SQL?
Based on Steve's answer, the simplest expression would be this:
var combo = from Person in people
from Car in cars
select new {Person, Car};
The same thing with the Linq extension method SelectMany
(lambda syntax):
var names = new string[] { "Ana", "Raz", "John" };
var numbers = new int[] { 1, 2, 3 };
var newList=names.SelectMany(
x => numbers,
(y, z) => { return y + z + " test "; });
foreach (var item in newList)
{
Console.WriteLine(item);
}
A cross-join is simply the Cartesian product of two sets. There's no explicit join operator for it.
var combo = from p in people from c in cars select new { p.Name, c.Make, c.Model, c.Colour };