Groupby in relationtable
- by Dofs
I am creating some tag functionality for a forum using linq2sql, and I have two tables
[Tag]
TagId
TagName
[ForumTagRelation]
TagId
ForumId
I would like to retrieve, like SO, the most popular tags.
I have tried to do this by:
List<Tag> popularTags = db.Tags.Select(x => x.ForumTagRelations.GroupBy(y => y.TagId).OrderByDescending(z => z.Count())).Take(count).ToList();
But this just returns the following error:
Error 1 Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Collections.Generic.List<System.Linq.IOrderedEnumerable<System.Linq.IGrouping<System.Guid?,SampleWebsite.ForumTagRelation>>>' to 'System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<SampleWebsite.Tag>'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?)
The question is how I easily can return a list of tags which has the most counts in the ForumTagRelation table?
