Different Linq synatx for this expression

Let's see... if I understand it you are trying to get a list of ReferencePersons on your Company where company id is equal to selected assignment id, isn't it?

What I usually do for this situations is use direct one to many linking:

DataContext.GetObjectContext().Company.Where(i => i.Id == selectedAssignmentID).ReferencePerson.ToList<ReferencePerson>();

I use to stablish database relationships between my tables, so:
DataContext.GetObjectContext().Company.Where(i => i.Id == selectedAssignmentID)
will return a list of those Companies that matches the idAssignment expression.

As a company can have many reference persons and I have a database relationship that stablish this on my Linq generated data model

DataContext.GetObjectContext().Company.Where(i => i.Id == selectedAssignmentID).ReferencePerson

will directly return the list of reference persons of all companies that matches the where clause.

Without direct relationships on database I usually use joins to achieve this effect, never tried before with selectMany.

Hi,

Linq SelectMany is equivalent to multiple from statements in the syntax sugared Linq style.

e.g.
          from a in DataA
          from b in DataB
          select new {a.Prop, b.Prop}

Not sure of your precise data schema but I hope this helps.

I want the exact same behavior as the first line. Im just curious how your write in the following "syntax":

from comp in DataContext.GetObjectContext().Company
                                    where comp.Id == selectedAssignmentID
                                    select comp.ReferencePersons..................... (some selectmany stuff)

Sorry if I was unclear.

from comp in DataContext.GetObjectContext().Company
                                    where comp.Id == selectedAssignmentID
                                    select comp.ReferencePersons

Is the same as

DataContext.GetObjectContext().Company.Where(i => i.Id == selectedAssignmentID).ReferencePersons

Yes but how do i Do SelectMany?
So the following would be valid:

List<ReferencePerson> referencePersons = (from comp in DataContext.GetObjectContext().Company
                                    where comp.Id == selectedAssignmentID
                                    select comp.ReferencePersons)............. (some extra?)

I do not know what do you mean with "select many".

This will return you a list of elements of ReferencePerson class with all it's data and fields loaded into each one of the list's elements:

List<ReferencePerson> referencePersons = DataContext.GetObjectContext().Company.Where(i => i.Id == selectedAssignmentID).ReferencePersons

Maybe if you tell us what fields/data/info are you trying to reach we can offer you a solution/alternative.