Simple Linq Dynamic Query question

Question

In Linq Dynamic Query, Scott Guthrie shows an example Linq query:

var query =
    db.Customers.
    Where("City == @0 and Orders.Count >= @1", "London", 10).
    OrderBy("CompanyName").
    Select("new( CompanyName as Name, Phone)");

Notice the projection new( CompanyName as Name, Phone). If I have a class like this:

public class CompanyContact {
    public string Name {get;set;}
    public string Phone {get;set;}
}

How could I essentially "cast" his result using the CompanyContact data type without doing a foreach on each record and dumping it in to a different data structure? To my knowledge the only .Select available is the Dymanic Query version which only takes a string and parameter list.

Answer 1

A far as I can see from the article you cite, The dynamic query methods return IQueryable<> objects, which mean the normal Select() should be available.

var query = 
    db.Customers. 
    Where("City == @0 and Orders.Count >= @1", "London", 10). 
    OrderBy("CompanyName"). 
    Select( c => new CompanyContact {Name = c.CompanyName, c.Phone}); 

You may have to explicitly give the type for the Select

    Select<Customer>( c => new CompanyContact {Name = c.CompanyName, c.Phone});