Linq to Flatten results instead of recurrsion

[sitefinitysteve]

Ok so I've got a table with parent\child relationships on the items

What I want to have in my partial class is a method to flatten all the children of the current node and any of it's children out into a List<int>.

Is that somehow doable with Linq, or do I have to loop through each item and it's children?

Thanks,
Steve

[Zoran]

Hi Steve,

 Can you be more specific by describing us your model and what you would like to achieve. I am pretty sure that it should be achievable with Linq but I am not sure I understand your idea about flattening out a persistent object and its children objects into a List<int>?

All the best,
Zoran
the Telerik team

[sitefinitysteve]

No need, I found an awesomely simple method to do this

public IEnumerable<CommonProgram> FlattenedChildProgramList(CommonProgram parent) {
            yield return parent;
            foreach (CommonProgram child in parent.ChildPrograms) // check null if you must
                foreach (CommonProgram relative in FlattenedChildProgramList(child))
            yield return relative;

        }