In C# can you perform a Range Select within a Range Select?

Question

I ultimately want to get every date for the current year in a List.

I have the following which gives me all dates for a given month..

    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Linq;
    internal class Program
    {
        public static void Main(String[] args)
        {
            List<DateTime> ldtDates = new List<DateTime>();
            Random rnd = new Random();
            int intCurrentYear = DateTime.Now.Year;
            int intCurrentMonth = DateTime.Now.Month;

            List<DateTime> DatesThisMonth =
                Enumerable.Range(1, DateTime.DaysInMonth(intCurrentYear, intCurrentMonth))
                          .Select(i => new DateTime(intCurrentYear, intCurrentMonth, i))
                          .ToList();

            foreach (var q in DatesThisMonth)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(q);
            }
            Console.WriteLine("Press <enter> to continue");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }

This works for the month, however I want to wrap a Range(1,12) around this code like this:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
internal class Program
{
    public static void Main(String[] args)
    {
        List<DateTime> ldtDates = new List<DateTime>();
        Random rnd = new Random();
        int intCurrentYear = DateTime.Now.Year;
        int intCurrentMonth = DateTime.Now.Month;

        var DatesThisYesr =
            Enumerable.Range(1, 12).Select(y=>
            Enumerable.Range(1, DateTime.DaysInMonth(intCurrentYear, y))
                      .Select(i => new DateTime(intCurrentYear, intCurrentMonth, i))
                      ).ToList();

        foreach (var q in DatesThisYesr)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(q);
        }
        Console.WriteLine("Press <enter> to continue");
        Console.ReadLine();
    }
}

Here is what my output looks like:

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System.Linq.Enumerable+WhereSelectEnumerableIterator`2[System.Int32,System.DateT
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System.Linq.Enumerable+WhereSelectEnumerableIterator`2[System.Int32,System.DateT
ime]
System.Linq.Enumerable+WhereSelectEnumerableIterator`2[System.Int32,System.DateT
ime]
System.Linq.Enumerable+WhereSelectEnumerableIterator`2[System.Int32,System.DateT
ime]
System.Linq.Enumerable+WhereSelectEnumerableIterator`2[System.Int32,System.DateT
ime]
System.Linq.Enumerable+WhereSelectEnumerableIterator`2[System.Int32,System.DateT
ime]
System.Linq.Enumerable+WhereSelectEnumerableIterator`2[System.Int32,System.DateT
ime]
System.Linq.Enumerable+WhereSelectEnumerableIterator`2[System.Int32,System.DateT
ime]
System.Linq.Enumerable+WhereSelectEnumerableIterator`2[System.Int32,System.DateT
ime]
System.Linq.Enumerable+WhereSelectEnumerableIterator`2[System.Int32,System.DateT
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System.Linq.Enumerable+WhereSelectEnumerableIterator`2[System.Int32,System.DateT
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Press <enter> to continue

I could use a For loop, however it should be possible to do this via Linq.

Thanks,

Answer 1

Use SelectMany like this:

var DatesThisYesr =
    Enumerable.Range(1, 12)
    .SelectMany(month =>
        Enumerable.Range(1, DateTime.DaysInMonth(intCurrentYear, month))
        .Select(day => new DateTime(intCurrentYear, month, day)))
    .ToList();