Group By Multiple Column In LINQ in C#

Question

I have a class like as follows:

public class ActualClass
{
    public string BookName { get; set; }
    public string IssuerName { get; set; }
    public DateTime DateOfIssue { get; set; }
    public bool Status { get; set; }
}

It has following data in the table:

I would like to group them by IssuerName and DateOfIssue for the following viewModel class:

public class ViewModel
{
   public string IssuerName { get; set; }
   public DateTime DateOfIssue { get; set; }
   public List<string> Books { get; set; }
}

And data will be displayed as follows: (Screenshot data will be replaced by the previous table data after successful grouping)

Special attention: Is there anything wrong in my ViewModel according to my expectation?

I tried a lot after following some stackoverflow answers but none did work for me. Any help will be highly appreciated.

The code I have tried:

var viewmodel = from b in db.BookIssues
                group b by new
                {
                    b.IssuerName,
                    b.DateOfIssue
                }
                into g
                select new ViewModel()
                {
                    Name = g.key.IssuerName,
                    DateOfIssue = g.Key.DateOfIssue,
                    Books = g.ToList() //Actually this line of code is not working
                };

Answer 1

Books = g.ToList() //Actually this line of is not working

Probably because Books property is type of List<string>, not List<ActualClass>.

Can you please try this query, I added b.Select(bn => bn.BookName).ToList() to extract only names of books:

var books = new List<ActualClass>
{
   new ActualClass { BookName = "A", DateOfIssue = new DateTime(2015, 10, 10, 10, 10, 0), IssuerName = "1" },
   new ActualClass { BookName = "B", DateOfIssue = new DateTime(2015, 10, 10, 10, 10, 0), IssuerName = "1" },
   new ActualClass { BookName = "C", DateOfIssue = new DateTime(2015, 10, 10, 10, 10, 0), IssuerName = "1" },
   new ActualClass { BookName = "D", DateOfIssue = new DateTime(2015, 10, 10, 10, 10, 0), IssuerName = "2" },
   new ActualClass { BookName = "E", DateOfIssue = new DateTime(2015, 10, 10, 12, 10, 0), IssuerName = "2" },
   new ActualClass { BookName = "F", DateOfIssue = new DateTime(2015, 10, 10, 12, 10, 0), IssuerName = "2" }
};

var result = books.GroupBy(x => new { x.IssuerName, x.DateOfIssue })
                .Select(b => new ViewModel
                {
                    Books = b.Select(bn => bn.BookName).ToList(),
                    // Accessing to DateOfIssue and IssuerName from Key.
                    DateOfIssue = b.Key.DateOfIssue,
                    IssuerName = b.Key.IssuerName
                });

I grouped by: x.IssuerName, x.DateOfIssue. I did that by passing anonymous type in GroupBy() with following manner: x => new { x.IssuerName, x.DateOfIssue }.

Now they are in key and you can access to IssuerName and DateOfIssue from KEY in SELECT statement like in following: b.Key.IssuerName and b.Key.DateOfIssue.