Default return type of LINQ Query [Resolved]

AFAIK, its depends on the select operation
If you are querying a database(Linq to SQL) then the return type is IQueryable<T> where T is Product in below example

var product = from p in dbContext.Products
             select p;

If you are using Linq againist a datasource which is an Enumerable collection(List) then the return type will be IEnumerable<t>

Additional Read : https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wriju/2008/05/06/linq-ienumerablet-and-iqueryablet/

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@Sriramramesh1610-23884 Sir, as rightly mentioned by @A2H, it depends on your original data source. It can be either IEnumerable or IQueryable

The result of a Linq database query is typically IQueryable<T> .

If the database query includes an OrderBy clause, the type is IOrderedQueryable<T> .It is derive from IQueryable<T>

If the data source is an IEnumerable, the result type is IEnumerable<T>

You can find out the datatype by calling .GetType() on the source.

Hope this helps.

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thank you guys.

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Glad to be of help :)

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A2H
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ou can find it out by calling .GetType() on your IEnumerable<T> variable and inspecting the type in the debugger.

For different LINQ providers and even different LINQ methods, such types may or may not be different.

What matters to your code is that they all implement IEnumerable<T> which you should work with, or IQueryable<T> which also accepts expressions, meaning your predicates and projections will become syntax trees and may be manipulated by a LINQ provider at runtime, e.g. to be translated into SQL.

Actual classes, if this is what you're asking about, may even be compiler-generated, e.g. yield return expression is translated to such a class.
Either way, they are usually internal and you should never, ever depend on them.

Munesh

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