LINQ SELECTMANY OPERATOR

The SelectMany operator is useful when working with a sequence of sequences. This operator will “flatten” the sub-sequences into a single output sequence – you can think of SelectMany as something like a nested iterator or nested foreach loop that digs objects out of a sequence inside a sequence. SelectMany is used when there are multiple from keywords in a comprehension query.

decimal totalDue = 500.00M;
using (AdventureWorksEntities context = new AdventureWorksEntities())
{
    ObjectSet<Contact> contacts = context.Contacts;
    ObjectSet<SalesOrderHeader> orders = context.SalesOrderHeaders;

    var query =
    contacts.SelectMany(
        contact => orders.Where(order =>
            (contact.ContactID == order.Contact.ContactID)
                && order.TotalDue < totalDue)
            .Select(order => new
            {
                ContactID = contact.ContactID,
                LastName = contact.LastName,
                FirstName = contact.FirstName,
                OrderID = order.SalesOrderID,
                Total = order.TotalDue
             }));

    foreach (var smallOrder in query)
    {
       Console.WriteLine("Contact ID: {0} Name: {1}, {2} Order ID: {3} Total Due: ${4} ",
            smallOrder.ContactID, smallOrder.LastName, smallOrder.FirstName,
            smallOrder.OrderID, smallOrder.Total);
    }
}