Question

I am building an asp.net site in .net framework 4.0, and I am stuck at the method that supposed to call a .cs class and get the query result back here is my method call and method

1: method call form aspx.cs page:

helper cls = new helper();
  var query = cls.GetQuery(GroupID,emailCap); 

2: Method in helper class:

public IQueryable<VariablesForIQueryble> GetQuery(int incomingGroupID, int incomingEmailCap)
    {
        var ctx = new some connection_Connection();
        ObjectSet<Members1> members = ctx.Members11;
        ObjectSet<groupMember> groupMembers = ctx.groupMembers;

        var query = from m in members
                    join gm in groupMembers on m.MemberID equals gm.MemID
                    where (gm.groupID == incomingGroupID) && (m.EmailCap == incomingEmailCap)
                    select new VariablesForIQueryble(m.MemberID, m.MemberFirst, m.MemberLast, m.MemberEmail, m.ValidEmail, m.EmailCap);
                    //select new {m.MemberID, m.MemberFirst, m.MemberLast, m.MemberEmail, m.ValidEmail, m.EmailCap};

        return query ;
    }

I tried the above code with IEnumerable too without any luck. This is the code for class VariablesForIQueryble:

3:Class it self for taking anonymouse type and cast it to proper types:

public class VariablesForIQueryble
{
    private int _emailCap;
    public int EmailCap
    {
        get { return _emailCap; }
        set { _emailCap = value; }
    }`....................................

4: and a constructor:

 public VariablesForIQueryble(int memberID, string memberFirst, string memberLast, string memberEmail, int? validEmail, int? emailCap)
    {

            this.EmailCap = (int) emailCap;
            .........................

    }

I can’t seem to get the query result back, first it told me anonymous type problem, I made a class after reading this: link text; and now it tells me constructors with parameters not supported. Now I am an intermediate developer, is there an easy solution to this or do I have to take my query back to the .aspx.cs page.

Answer 1

Used reflection to solve the problem:

A: Query, not using custom made “VariablesForIQueryble” class any more:

 //Method in helper class 
 public IEnumerable GetQuery(int incomingGroupID, int incomingEmailCap)
        {

            var ctx = new some_Connection();
            ObjectSet<Members1> members = ctx.Members11;
            ObjectSet<groupMember> groupMembers = ctx.groupMembers;

            var query = from m in members
                        join gm in groupMembers on m.MemberID equals gm.MemID
                        where ((gm.groupID == incomingGroupID) && (m.EmailCap == incomingEmailCap)) //select m;
                        select new {  m.MemberID,  m.MemberFirst,  m.MemberLast, m.MemberEmail,  m.ValidEmail, m.EmailCap };
                        //select new VariablesForIQueryble (m.MemberID, m.MemberFirst, m.MemberLast, m.MemberEmail, m.ValidEmail, m.EmailCap);
            //List<object> lst = new List<object>();

            //foreach (var i in query)
            //{
            //    lst.Add(i.MemberEmail);
            //}
            //return lst;
            //return query.Select(x => new{x.MemberEmail,x.MemberID,x.ValidEmail,x.MemberFirst,x.MemberLast}).ToList();
            return query;
        }

B:Code to catch objects and conversion of those objects using reflection

  helper cls = new helper();
  var query = cls.GetQuery(GroupID,emailCap);      
 if (query != null)
                    {

                        foreach (var objRow in query)
                        {

                            System.Type type = objRow.GetType();
                            int memberId = (int)type.GetProperty("MemberID").GetValue(objRow, null);
                            string memberEmail = (string)type.GetProperty("MemberEmail").GetValue(objRow, null);
    }
    else
    {
    something else....
    }