Question

Getting error inside MVC3 web application.
LINQ to Entities does not recognize the method 'System.String ToString()' method, and this method cannot be translated into a store expression.

when i try to fetch values using EF from query :

public class DataRepository
    {
        public mydataEntities1 dbContext = new mydataEntities1();

        public List<SelectListItem> GetPricingSecurityID()
        {
        var pricingSecurityID = (from m in dbContext.Reporting_DailyNAV_Pricing
                                     select new SelectListItem
                                         {
                                                Text = m.PricingSecurityID.ToString(),
                                                Value = m.PricingSecurityID.ToString()
                                         });

        return pricingSecurityID.ToList();
        }
    }

Answer 1

That can’t be converted to SQL. I guess, in theory, it could, but isn’t implemented.

You just need to perform your projection after you have your results:

var pricingSecurityID = (from m in dbContext.Reporting_DailyNAV_Pricing
                                     select m.PricingSecurityID).AsEnumerable()
    .Select(x => new SelectListItem{ Text = x.ToString(), Value = x.ToString() });