Queryable::Aggregate<TSource, TAccumulate> Method (IQueryable<TSource>, TAccumulate, Expression<Func<TAccumulate, TSource, TAccumulate>>)
Applies an accumulator function over a sequence. The specified seed value is used as the initial accumulator value.
Namespace: System.Linq
Assembly: System.Core (in System.Core.dll)
Type Parameters
- TSource
The type of the elements of source.
- TAccumulate
The type of the accumulator value.
Parameters
- source
- Type: System.Linq::IQueryable<TSource>
A sequence to aggregate over.
- seed
- Type: TAccumulate
The initial accumulator value.
- func
- Type: System.Linq.Expressions::Expression<Func<TAccumulate, TSource, TAccumulate>>
An accumulator function to invoke on each element.
Return Value
Type: TAccumulateThe final accumulator value.
Usage Note
In Visual Basic and C#, you can call this method as an instance method on any object of type IQueryable<TSource>. When you use instance method syntax to call this method, omit the first parameter.| Exception | Condition |
|---|---|
| ArgumentNullException | source or func is nullptr. |
This method has at least one parameter of type Expression<TDelegate> whose type argument is one of the Func<T, TResult> types. For these parameters, you can pass in a lambda expression and it will be compiled to an Expression<TDelegate>.
The Aggregate<TSource, TAccumulate>(IQueryable<TSource>, TAccumulate, Expression<Func<TAccumulate, TSource, TAccumulate>>) method generates a MethodCallExpression that represents calling Aggregate<TSource, TAccumulate>(IQueryable<TSource>, TAccumulate, Expression<Func<TAccumulate, TSource, TAccumulate>>) itself as a constructed generic method. It then passes the MethodCallExpression to the Execute<TResult>(Expression) method of the IQueryProvider represented by the Provider property of the source parameter.
The query behavior that occurs as a result of executing an expression tree that represents calling Aggregate<TSource, TAccumulate>(IQueryable<TSource>, TAccumulate, Expression<Func<TAccumulate, TSource, TAccumulate>>) depends on the implementation of the type of the source parameter. The expected behavior is that the specified function, func, is applied to each value in the source sequence and the accumulated value is returned. The seed parameter is used as the seed value for the accumulated value, which corresponds to the first parameter in func.
To simplify common aggregation operations, the set of standard query operators also includes two counting methods, Count and LongCount, and four numeric aggregation methods, namely Max, Min, Sum, and Average.
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