I often have a situation where I have a filled collection and now I need to retrieve a subset of that collection. In ADO.Net this is easily done by creating a DataView and setting its RowFilter property. I haven't found equivalent functionality in GenPro objects. I realize that I could create a Predicate and do a getMulti with a new collection object, but I want to get the subset from an already filled collection that I have in memory, not do another database hit.

Is there something I've missed that will allow me to do this, short of looping through the collection and examining every entity in it?

At the moment looping through the collection is the only option you have, I'm afraid.

Any hopes for getting this functionality?

sami wrote:

Any hopes for getting this functionality?

The v2 codebase as we have it now (still in development) has this functionalty indeed You can specify a filter using normal LLBLGen Pro predicate objects and you can then filter a collection, create an EntityView object and if you want project it on other objects, sort it with sortexpressions etc.