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Custom Classes and LINQ To SQL Group By

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I spent a good part of my morning trying to get LTS to return my custom class as a result of a group by instead of an anonymous type. Most of the samples I found on the web for Group By returned anonymous types and the ones that didn't were from early versions and I couldn't get them to work. The problem I was having was getting the column I was grouping on mapped. I created a class called DescriptionCounts that had two properties Description (string) and Count (integer). The following code will correctly map a group by query to this class. Dim i = From b In dc.Barriers _ Group By b.BarrierType.Description Into g = Group _ Select New DescriptionCounts _ With {.Description = Description, .Count = g.Count} The main thing to notice is that when the Description property gets mapped, it is mapped to a variable named Description (.Description = Description -- notice that there is no prefix) and not to a property of b. All of the aggregate functions require