LINQPad is a good tool for what you need. I “stole” the following screenshot from their website to better illustrate how it works. If you write a query using linq syntax you can click on the button highlighted in red to see the equivalent lambda syntax:
To answer your question about translation, the query expression will always be translated based on the rules on 7.16 of the C# 4 spec (or the equivalent in the C# 3 spec). In the example where you’re asking the question about the Name property, that’s not a matter of the query expression translation – it’s … Read more
Honestly, sometimes it can be situational once you start using Funcs and Actions. Say you are using these three funcs: Func<DataClasses.User, String> userName = user => user.UserName; Func<DataClasses.User, Boolean> userIDOverTen = user => user.UserID < 10; Func<DataClasses.User, Boolean> userIDUnderTen = user => user.UserID > 10; As you can see the first one replaces the lamdba … Read more