How can I do multiple operations inside a C# LINQ ForEach loop

Question

I have a list of Question objects and I use a ForEach to iterate through the list. For each object I do an .Add to add it into my entity framework and then the database.

List<Question> add = problem.Questions.ToList();
add.ForEach(_obj => _uow.Questions.Add(_obj));

I need to modify each of the objects in the ForEach and set the AssignedDate field to DateTime.Now. Is there a way I can do this inside of the ForEach loop?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18230690/how-can-i-do-multiple-operations-inside-a-c-sharp-linq-foreach-loop

Answer 1

You would do something like

add.ForEach(_obj =>
                {
                    _uow.Questions.Add(_obj);
                    Console.WriteLine("TADA");
                });

Have a look at the examples in Action Delegate

The following example demonstrates the use of the Action delegate to print the contents of a List object. In this example, the Print method is used to display the contents of the list to the console. In addition, the C# example also demonstrates the use of anonymous methods to display the contents to the console. Note that the example does not explicitly declare an Action variable. Instead, it passes a reference to a method that takes a single parameter and that does not return a value to the List.ForEach method, whose single parameter is an Action delegate. Similarly, in the C# example, an Action delegate is not explicitly instantiated because the signature of the anonymous method matches the signature of the Action delegate that is expected by the List.ForEach method.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        List<String> names = new List<String>();
        names.Add("Bruce");
        names.Add("Alfred");
        names.Add("Tim");
        names.Add("Richard");

        // Display the contents of the list using the Print method.
        names.ForEach(Print);

        // The following demonstrates the anonymous method feature of C# 
        // to display the contents of the list to the console.
        names.ForEach(delegate(String name)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(name);
        });

        names.ForEach(name =>
        {
            Console.WriteLine(name);
        });
    }

    private static void Print(string s)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(s);
    }
}
/* This code will produce output similar to the following:
 * Bruce
 * Alfred
 * Tim
 * Richard
 * Bruce
 * Alfred
 * Tim
 * Richard
 */