How can you pre-define a variable that will contain an anonymous type?
- by HitLikeAHammer
In the simplified example below I want to define result before it is assinged. The linq queries below return lists of anonymous types. result will come out of the linq queries as an IEnumerable<'a but I can't define it that way at the top of the method. Is what I am trying to do possible (in .NET 4)?
bool large = true;
var result = new IEnumerable(); //This is wrong
List<int> numbers = new int[]{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10}.ToList<int>();
if (large)
{
result = from n in numbers
where n > 5
select new
{
value = n
};
}
else
{
result = from n in numbers
where n < 5
select new
{
value = n
};
}
foreach (var num in result)
{
Console.WriteLine(num.value);
}
EDIT: To be clear I know that I do not need anonymous types in the example above. It is just to illustrate my question with a small, simple example.
