Is there a better way to do this? I tried to loop over the partsToChange collection and build up the where clause, but it ANDs them together instead of ORing them. I also don't really want to explicitly do the equality on each item in the partsToChange list.
var partsToChange = new Dictionary<string, string> {
{"0039", "Vendor A"},
{"0051", "Vendor B"},
{"0061", "Vendor C"},
{"0080", "Vendor D"},
{"0081", "Vendor D"},
{"0086", "Vendor D"},
{"0089", "Vendor E"},
{"0091", "Vendor F"},
{"0163", "Vendor E"},
{"0426", "Vendor B"},
{"1197", "Vendor B"}
};
var items = new List<MaterialVendor>();
foreach (var x in partsToChange)
{
var newItems = (
from m in MaterialVendor
where
m.Material.PartNumber == x.Key
&& m.Manufacturer.Name.Contains(x.Value)
select m
).ToList();
items.AddRange(newItems);
}
Additional info: I am working in LINQPad.
