Know the number of elements of a Iqueryable

Question

I have this Linq Query

public IQueryable listAll()
{   
    ModelQMDataContext db = new ModelQMDataContext(); 
    IQueryable lTax = from t
                      in db.tax
                      select new {Tax = t.tax1, Increase = t.increase};
    return  lTax;
}  

how can I know the number of elements of lTax?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Do you really need to return IQueryable? Returning IQueryable from your method doesn't provide much functionality since you can't access the members of an anonymous type without reflection. In this case I suggest that you create a concrete type in the query to be able to return IQueryable<T>:

class TaxIncrease
{
    public int Tax { get; set; }
    public int Increase { get; set; }
}

public IQueryable<TaxIncrease> listAll() {
    ModelQMDataContext db = new ModelQMDataContext();
    return from t in db.tax
           select new TaxIncrease {Tax = t.tax1, Increase = t.increase};
}

and then you can do:

listAll().Count();

Answer 2

lTax.Count() should do it...