Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Projection Operators

LINQ query expressions extract values from data sources and then push results into a sequence of elements. This operation of pushing items into a sequence is known as projection. Select is the projection operator for LINQ queries. Continuing the example of products shown in the previous section, the following query creates a new sequence containing all products names:

The query result is now an IEnumerable(Of String). If you need to create a sequence of objects, you can simply select each single item as follows:

This returns ...