LINQ - Full Outer Join

Question

I have a list of people\'s ID and their first name, and a list of people\'s ID and their surname. Some people don\'t have a first name and some don\'t have a surname; I\'d l

Answer 1

Full outer join for two or more tables: First extract the column that you want to join on.

var DatesA = from A in db.T1 select A.Date; 
var DatesB = from B in db.T2 select B.Date; 
var DatesC = from C in db.T3 select C.Date;            

var Dates = DatesA.Union(DatesB).Union(DatesC); 

Then use left outer join between the extracted column and main tables.

var Full_Outer_Join =

(from A in Dates
join B in db.T1
on A equals B.Date into AB 

from ab in AB.DefaultIfEmpty()
join C in db.T2
on A equals C.Date into ABC 

from abc in ABC.DefaultIfEmpty()
join D in db.T3
on A equals D.Date into ABCD

from abcd in ABCD.DefaultIfEmpty() 
select new { A, ab, abc, abcd })
.AsEnumerable();