- IEnumerable exists in System.Collections Namespace.
- IQueryable exists in System. Linq Namespace.
- Both IEnumerable and IQueryable are forward collection.
- IEnumerable doesn’t support lazy loading
- IQueryable support lazy loading
- Querying data from a database, IEnumerable execute a select query on the server side, load data in-memory on a client-side and then filter data.
- Querying data from a database, IQueryable execute the select query on the server side with all filters.
- IEnumerable Extension methods take functional objects.
- IQueryable Extension methods take expression objects means expression tree.
Example
IEnumerable
dbContext dc = new dbContext ();
IEnumerable
<SocialMedia>
list = dc.SocialMedias.Where(p => p.Name.StartsWith("T"));
list = list.Take<SocialMedia>(1);
</SocialMedia>Sql statement generated for the above query
SELECT [t0].[ID], [t0].[Name] FROM [SocialMedia] AS [t0]
WHERE [t0].[Name] LIKE @p0
IQueryable
dbContext dc = new dbContext ();
IQueryable<SocialMedia> list = dc.SocialMedias.Where(p => p.Name.StartsWith("T"));
list = list.Take<SocialMedia>(1);Sql statement generated for the above query
SELECT top 1 [t0].[ID], [t0].[Name] FROM [SocialMedia] AS [t0]
WHERE [t0].[Name] LIKE @p0
