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C# Querying With LINQ Now You're Querying Selecting, Projecting and Anonymous Types

Ramy Elsaraf
Ramy Elsaraf
7,633 Points

Cant solve need help

Create a variable named matchingBirds and assign it a LINQ query on the birds variable that have the same Color property as the mysteryBird object. In the query, return an anonymous type with a property named BirdName and assign to it the Name property of the birds

CodeChallenge.cs
var birds = new[] 
{ 
    new { Name = "Pelican", Color = "White" }, 
    new { Name = "Swan", Color = "White" }, 
    new { Name = "Crow", Color = "Black" } 

};

var mysteryBird = new {Name="MysteryBird", Color = "White", Sightings =3  };
var matchingBirds = new {BirdName = mysteryBird.Name, mysteryBird.Color, mysteryBird.Sightings };

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

:point_right: The variable matchingBirds should get the result of a LINQ query.

It looks like you started to assign it another anonymous object.

Read the instructions again. Your query will draw from the birds object array, and will use the Color property of the mysteryBird object to filter the result.

:information_source: Also, be aware that the challenge did not ask for the mysteryBird to have a Name property. It doesn't hurt anything this time, but just in general it's good to do only what the challenges ask, as extra things can sometimes confuse the checking mechanism.