IEnumerable.Select和SelectMany的区别

IEnumerable<T>在Windows Phone 7的程序上很常用，它允许开发人员定义foreach语句功能的实现并支持非泛型方法的简单迭代，下面主要分析一下 IEnumerable<T>.Select和IEnumerable<T>.SelectMany这两个方法的区别。

IEnumerable<T>.Select  将序列中的每个元素投影到新表中。

IEnumerable<T>.SelectMany 将序列的每个元素投影到 IEnumerable<T> 并将结果序列合并为一个序列。

SelectMany 方法枚举输入序列，使用转换函数将每个元素映射到 IEnumerable<T>，然后枚举并生成每个这种 IEnumerable<T> 对象的元素。 也就是说，对于 source 的每个元素，selector 被调用，返回一个值的序列。 然后 SelectMany将集合的此二维集合合并为一维 IEnumerable<T> 并将其返回。

下面一个小例子用IEnumerable<T>.Select和IEnumerable<T>.SelectMany实现同样的功能，看看两者的区别。

<Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1" Margin="12,0,12,0">
            <ListBox  Name="Output"    
                      HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"      
                      VerticalAlignment="Stretch"     
                      Margin="10" />
            <ListBox  Name="Output2"    
                      HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"      
                      VerticalAlignment="Stretch"     
                      Margin="200,10,10,10" />
</Grid>

cs页面

namespace LinqApplication
{
    public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage
    {
        List<Book> Books;//List<T>继承了IEnumerable<T> 接口
        public MainPage()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            CreateBooks();
            //IEnumerable<Book>.Select 将序列中的Authors元素投影到新表中。
            IEnumerable<List<Author>> EnumerableOfListOfAuthors = Books.Select(book => book.Authors);

            foreach (var listOfAuthors in EnumerableOfListOfAuthors)
            { 
                foreach (Author auth in listOfAuthors)
                {
                    Output.Items.Add(auth.Name); //添加到ListBox里面
                }
            }

            //IEnumerable<Book>.SelectMany  将序列的每个元素投影到 IEnumerable<T> 并将结果序列合并为一个序列。
            IEnumerable<Author> authors = Books.SelectMany(book => book.Authors);
            foreach (Author auth in authors) 
            { 
                Output2.Items.Add(auth.Name);
            } 


        }

        private void CreateBooks() 
        { 
            Books = new List<Book>(); 
            Author auth1 = new Author() { Name = "张三", Age = 32 };
            Author auth2 = new Author() { Name = "李四", Age = 30 };
            Author auth3 = new Author() { Name = "加菲猫", Age = 31 };
            List<Author> authors = new List<Author>() { auth1, auth2, auth3 };

            Book newBook = new Book() { Authors = authors, NumPages = 500, Title = "Programming C#" };
            Books.Add(newBook); auth1 = new Author() { Name = "刘德华", Age = 42 };

            authors = new List<Author>() { auth1 };
            newBook = new Book() { Authors = authors, NumPages = 350, Title = "Book 2" };
            Books.Add(newBook); auth1 = new Author() { Name = "周杰伦", Age = 32 };

            auth2 = new Author() { Name = "林志玲", Age = 32 }; 
            authors = new List<Author>() { auth1, auth2 };
            newBook = new Book() { Authors = authors, NumPages = 375, Title = "Programming with WP7" }; 
            Books.Add(newBook);
        } 
    }
}

Author.cs类

namespace LinqApplication
{
    public class Author
    {
        public string Name; 
        public int Age; 
    }
}

Book.cs类

namespace LinqApplication
{
    public class Book
    {
        public String Title { get; set; } 
        public List<Author> Authors { get; set; } 
        public int NumPages { get; set; } 

    }
}