Difference between two Entity Set using LINQ

Introduction

In this tip I am going to discuss about how to get the difference between two table/ entity sets For Ex. we want to get rows form table_A which are not exists in table_B. (When table_A primarykey is part of table_B foreignkey).

Following is way to get the row(s) form table_A which are not part of table_B

SELECT <select_list>
FROM Table_A A
LEFT JOIN Table_B B
ON A.Key = B.Key
WHERE B.Key IS NULL
</select_list>

In Linq to Sql you can achieve same thing just by calling one function Except.

var infoQuery =
    (from tblA in db.Table_A
    select tblA.Key)
    .Except
        (from tblB in db.Table_B
        select tblB.Key);

So by using above query you can easily achieve task of getting difference between set of collection.