string[] fruits = { "apple", "banana", "mango", "orange", 
                      "passionfruit", "grape" };

// Project an anonymous type that contains the
// index of the string in the source array, and
// a string that contains the same number of characters
// as the string's index in the source array.
var query =
    fruits.AsQueryable()
    .Select((fruit, index) =>
                new { index, str = fruit.Substring(0, index) });

foreach (var obj in query)
    Console.WriteLine("{0}", obj);

List<int> range =
    new List<int> { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 };

// Project the square of each int value.
IEnumerable<int> squares =
    range.AsQueryable().Select(x => x * x);

foreach (int num in squares)
    Console.WriteLine(num);