Question: i have some code that sets user's properties like so:

```
us = new UserSession();
us.EmailAddr = emailAddr;
us.FullName = fullName;
us.UserROB = GetUserROB(uprUserName);
us.UserID = GetUserID(uprUserName);
us.UserActive = GetUserActive(uprUserName);

```

where `GetUserROB`, `GetUserID` and `GetUserActive` all look similar like so:

```
private static string GetUserActive(string userName)
{
    using (Entities ctx = CommonSERT.GetContext())
    {
        var result = (from ur in ctx.datUserRoles
                       where ur.AccountName.Equals(userName, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase)
                       select new
                       {
                           Active = ur.active
                       }).FirstOrDefault();

        if (result != null)
           return result.Active;
        else
           return "N";
     }
  }

```

it works, but i dont think it's the right way here. how can i assign userROB, ID and Active properties all in one LINQ call? without having to have 3 separate functions to do this?

Answer: 
If I understand correctly I believe you can do something like:

```
private static void GetUserData(string userName, UserSession userSession)
{
    using (Entities ctx = CommonSERT.GetContext())
    {
        var result = (from ur in ctx.datUserRoles
                      where ur.AccountName.Equals(userName, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase)
                      select new
                      {
                          UserActive = ur.active,
                          UserROB = ur.ROB,
                          UserID = ur.ID
                      }).FirstOrDefault();

    }

    if (result != null) {
        userSession.UserActive = result.UserActive;
        userSession.UserROB  = result.UserROB;
        userSession.UserID = result.UserID;
    }

}

```

In the `select new` you can place as many properties as you want, this way you can get from the database several properties in a single roundtrip, and handling it later.

In the example I gave, I pass the UserSession as a parameter, in any case you already have other properites alrealdy filled from other methods.
Well you might consider normalising your domain model and having a `User` property of type `User`, then your method would return all of the related user data.