How to return Anonymous Type in linq

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I want to return an Linq query Result Which is Stored in Var. How to Return it. I also googled.But Can't find an suitable answer.Any help is appreciated.

Posted 28-Jan-13 18:25pm

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Updated 28-Jan-13 19:57pm

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Tharaka MTR · Answer 1 · 2013-01-28T20:01:00

Solution 2

Check this article,
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/swiss_dpe_team/archive/2008/01/25/using-your-own-defined-type-in-a-linq-query-expression.aspx[^]

Posted 28-Jan-13 20:01pm

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Member 9626721 29-Jan-13 2:23am

Thanks for Reply,But this link does not help me.i Want to return this anonymous type from a Method

Jameel VM · Answer 2 · 2013-01-28T20:05:00

You cannot type any method in C# to be the explicit type of an anonymous types. They cannot be "named" so to speak and hence cannot appear in metadata signatures.

If you really want to return a value which is an anonymous type there are 2 options

Have the return type of the method be System.Object. You can then do evil casting hacks to get a typed value in another method. This is very fragile and I don't recommend it.
Use a generic method and a type inference trick to get the return type correct. This would require a very interesting signature definition for your approach.
Anonymous types were not really meant to be passed around in this fashion. At the point you need to pass them around between your functions in this manner, you're better off explicitly defining a type.