LINQ to SQL Select Query with Alias Name

LINQ to SQL Select Query with Alias Name

Before writing a LINQ to SQL query, we first need to create a DataContext using the LINQ to SQL Classes template, to know more on how to create the DataContext refer to the post LINQ to SQL Sample

Once the DataContext is created we can query the Object model using LINQ queries, let us consider the Employee table which has the following structure.

The below code will fetch the columns from the Employee Table with the actual column names from the Table

EmployeeClassesDataContext dbContext = new EmployeeClassesDataContext();

                       

var emp = (from e in dbContext.Employees 

          select new { e.ID, e.Name, e.Phone });

  

In many situations we will need to have custom (Alias) names to the Columns, in SQL Query we can achieve this using the AS Clause

Select ID as EmpID, Name as EMPName, Phone as EmpPhone FROM Employees

Now let us see how the same can be achieved using a LINQ query.

EmployeeClassesDataContext dbContext = new EmployeeClassesDataContext();

var emp = (from e in dbContext.Employees
          select new {

          EmpID = e.ID,

          EmpName = e.Name,

          EmpPhone = e.Phone

          });

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