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    @MGG_Soft that would be an anonymous type Commented Mar 1, 2013 at 14:15
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    This code is not working for me: "Invalid anonymous type declarator." Commented Jul 7, 2014 at 16:51
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    @Tom this should work the way it is. When you skip naming the fields of an anonymous type C# assumes you want to use the name of the finally accessed property/field from the projection. (So your example is equivalent to Mo0gles') Commented Jan 28, 2015 at 13:54
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    @Crisfole yes I totall agree under most cases this is true. However there are times when the compiler can't infer the field names and they have to be explicitly specified. As in when you get the "Invalid anonymous type declarator" compile error. It's happened to me and also thalesfc hence the comment. Commented Jan 30, 2015 at 9:38
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    @Tom. I think that only applies if you're calculating a value, e.g. new { x.Column1 + " " + x.Column2 }, as there will be no name to infer. Just using the property names, as in the sample above, should always work. Commented Feb 24, 2015 at 15:41