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How can you handle an IN sub-query with LINQ to SQL?

I’m a bit stuck on this. Basically I want to do something like the following SQL query in LINQ to SQL:

SELECT f.* 
FROM Foo f
WHERE f.FooId IN (
    SELECT fb.FooId
    FROM FooBar fb
    WHERE fb.BarId = 1000
)

Any help would be gratefully received.

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Answer

Have a look at this article. Basically, if you want to get the equivalent of IN, you need to construct an inner query first, and then use the Contains() method. Here’s my attempt at translating:

var innerQuery = from fb in FoorBar where fb.BarId = 1000 select fb.FooId;
var result = from f in Foo where innerQuery.Contains(f.FooId) select f;
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