Some more LINQ love

by Jon Sagara June 4, 2009 at 3:32 PM

Here's another example of how I feel LINQ improves the readability of my code. This is the before version, using standard looping to populate a list of objects:

private IEnumerable<Album> ReadAlbums(LLAlbum[] llAlbums)
{
	Album album;
	IList<Album> albums = new List<Album>(llAlbums.Length);

	foreach (LLAlbum llAlbum in llAlbums)
	{
		album = new Album()
		{
			AlbumId = llAlbum.Id
		};

		albums.Add(album);
	}

	return albums;
}

And here is the after version, using a LINQ query:

private IEnumerable<Album> ReadAlbums(LLAlbum[] llAlbums)
{
	return from llAlbum in llAlbums
		   select new Album
		   {
			   AlbumId = llAlbum.Id
		   };
}

Now, depending on your familiarity with LINQ, you may or may not agree with me, but I love it!

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