Simple way to return anonymous types (to make MVC using LINQ possible)

Question

I\'d like to implement MVC while using LINQ (specifically, LINQ-to-entities). The way I would do this is have the Controller generate (or call something which generates) th

Answer 1

How about this?

I assume that you have an entity class for your table 'myTable' (let's call it 'MyTableEntity'), so why don't you instantiate a new MyTableEntity object and use object initializer to fill only those columns you want?

return (from o in myTable select new MyTableEntity { AColumn = o.column });

This will not translate to a SELECT * as you asked, but you'll still have a way to pass a strongly-typed object to a view.

You have to be careful to just make use of the initialized properties inside the view and that's it.

Does this makes sense for you?