Question

BranchState is a class which has the following properties:

• State
• Branch
• AgencyId
• Description

With this code…

var AgencyBranches = 
    from  b in BranchStates
    select  b.Description.Distinct();

var States = 
    from s in BranchStates
    select s.State.Distinct();

if (AgencyBranches.Count() == 1 && States.Count() == 1)
{
    if (States.FirstOrDefault().Tostring() == "CA") /// **This always yields some generic value.** 
        Response.Redirect("StateCA.aspx");

    if (States.FirstOrDefault().Tostring() == "Az") /// **This always yields some generic value.** 
        Response.Redirect("StateAz.aspx");
}

… States.FirstOrDefault() always yields System.Collections.Generic.List`1[System.Char]

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

This does not do what you think it does, because it’s missing some parentheses:

var States = from s in BranchStates 
             select s.State.Distinct();

Here, Distinct operates in each State property value yielding a sequence of characters because State (a string) implements IEnumerable<char>.

You probably meant

var States = BranchStates.Select(b => b.State).Distinct();