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#7 Get Authors of Books (sub-items) to show and for sorting
Group books by authors in 3 ways

Accessing Authors, a List inside of Books

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Basic Use of List book.Authors

This example shows the books, and we want to LINQ on the Authors. We must tell the compiler it's a list, so that LINQ can use Select(...).

  1. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  2. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
  3. Phishing for Phools by George Akerlof
  4. The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett 

<ol>
  @foreach(var book in books) {
    // To work with a list coming off a dynamic object, we have to tell the compiler it's a dynamic list
    var authors = (book.Authors as Dynlist)
      .Select(a => a.FirstName + " " + a.LastName);

    <li><strong>@book.Title</strong>
      by @string.Join(", ", authors.OrderBy(ln => ln)) 
    </li>
  }
</ol>

OrderBy Amount of Authors

This example shows Z-A ordering, where we count the authors to sort.

  1. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman,Terry Pratchett (2 author)
  2. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1 author)
  3. Phishing for Phools by George Akerlof (1 author)
  4. The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett (1 author) 

<ol>
  @foreach(var book in books.OrderByDescending(p => p.Authors.Count)) {
    var authors = (book.Authors as Dynlist).Select(a => a.FirstName + " " + a.LastName);
    <li><strong>@book.Title</strong> 
      by @string.Join(",", authors.OrderBy(ln => ln)) (@book.Authors.Count author) 
    </li>
  }
</ol>
Basic sorting of lists
#7 Get Authors of Books (sub-items) to show and for sorting
Group books by authors in 3 ways

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@inherits Custom.Hybrid.Razor14
@using System.Linq;
@using Dynlist = System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<dynamic>;

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@{
  var persons = AsList(App.Data["Persons"]);
  var books = AsList(App.Data["Books"]);
}

@Html.Partial("_header.cshtml")

<div class="row">
  <div class="col-lg-7">
    <h2>Accessing Authors, a List inside of Books</h2>
  </div>
  @Html.Partial("../shared/_DefaultInfoSection.cshtml")
</div>

<h3>Basic Use of List book.Authors</h3>
<p>This example shows the books, and we want to LINQ on the Authors. We must tell the compiler it's a list, so that LINQ can use <code>Select(...)</code>.</p>

<ol>
  @foreach(var book in books) {
    // To work with a list coming off a dynamic object, we have to tell the compiler it's a dynamic list
    var authors = (book.Authors as Dynlist)
      .Select(a => a.FirstName + " " + a.LastName);

    <li><strong>@book.Title</strong>
      by @string.Join(", ", authors.OrderBy(ln => ln)) 
    </li>
  }
</ol>



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<h3>OrderBy Amount of Authors</h3>
<p>This example shows Z-A ordering, where we count the authors to sort.</p>

<ol>
  @foreach(var book in books.OrderByDescending(p => p.Authors.Count)) {
    var authors = (book.Authors as Dynlist).Select(a => a.FirstName + " " + a.LastName);
    <li><strong>@book.Title</strong> 
      by @string.Join(",", authors.OrderBy(ln => ln)) (@book.Authors.Count author) 
    </li>
  }
</ol>




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