Question

Afternoon,

Can any one see why my query is not returning a random 6 items please?

 public class GetQuestions
 {
   public int qId { get; set; }
   public string question { get; set; }
   public string answer1 { get; set; }
   public string answer2 { get; set; }
   public string answer3 { get; set; }
}

  [WebMethod]
    [ScriptMethod(ResponseFormat = ResponseFormat.Json)]
    public List<GetQuestions> Questions()
    {
        using (QuizDataContext dc = new QuizDataContext())
        {
            var query = from q in dc.tblquizs
                        orderby Guid.NewGuid()
                        select new GetQuestions
                        {
                            qId = q.id,
                            question = q.q,
                            answer1 = q.a1,
                            answer2 = q.a2,
                            answer3 = q.a3,
                        };
            return query.Take(6).ToList();
        }

Updated Add the GetQuestions Class

Answer 1

I used the following code to resolve this issue.

 var qry = from q in dc.tblwhiskysprintquizs.AsEnumerable()
                      orderby Guid.NewGuid()
                      select new GetQuestions
                        {
                            qId = q.id,
                            question = q.q,
                            answer1 = q.a1,
                            answer2 = q.a2,
                            answer3 = q.a3,
                        };
            return qry.Take(6).ToList();

It was as simple as adding .AsEnumerable to the look up.