Question

Consider following SQL statement –

SELECT * FROM Customers WHERE FirstName LIKE '%IS%'

This is will search for customers having ‘IS’ as part of first name, right?

I like the same statement to be in LINQ –

var names = from cust in customers where cust.FirstName ......

I am unable to specify that condition.
Can anybody help me out solve this.

Thanks for sharing your time and wisdom.

Answer 1

Most LINQ -> SQL translators will take a few regular methods from c# and translate them into SQL. Contains is a very common method to translate and works with linq2sql and EF

var names = from cust in customers 
            where cust.FirstName.Contains("IS")
            select cust;

EDIT: (case insensitive)

var names = from cust in customers 
            where cust.FirstName.ToLower().Contains("is")
            select cust;