Question

I am getting a weird behavior. I have a class that I created that is used to format data comping from a data entity into a data grid. I am a using a linq query to create a list of the class type from a list of the entity type. Some of the properties of the class are accessible from the linq query but other give me an error. (AMNotStartedPortalDisplay’ does not contain a definition for ‘ChecklistStatusID’). So my question is why can linq access some properties but not others? I see no reason why this should be happening.

Here is my class:

public class AMWOTPortalDisplay
{
    public string DisplayName { get; set; }
    public string LOB { get; set; }
    public string DisplayProjectPackages { get; set; }
    public string ChecklistStatus { get; set; }
    public int ChecklistStatusID { get; set; }
    public string InstallDate { get; set; }
    public string dateToYellow { get; set; }
    public string dateToRed { get; set; }
    public string ApplicationManager { get; set; }
    public string ApplicationManagerLanID { get; set; }
    public int ApplicationManagerUserID { get; set; }
    public string ImpersonatedManager { get; set; }
    public string ImpersonatedManagerLanID { get; set; }
    public int ImpersonatedManagerUserID { get; set; }
    public string DelegateName { get; set; }
    public string DelegateLanID { get; set; }
    public int DelegateUserID { get; set; }
    public string WOTAssignee { get; set; }
    public int ChecklistID { get; set; }
    public string DisplayLinkText { get; set; }
    public string LinkTextURL { get; set; }
    public string rowColor { get; set; }
    public string rowTextColor { get; set; }
}

And here is the linq query as I have it so far:

var portaldisplay = checklists
        .Select(c => new AMNotStartedPortalDisplay
        {
            DisplayName = string.Format("{0} ({1})", c.Application.Name, c.Application.ApplicationID),
            LOB = c.Application.LOB,
            ChecklistStatus = c.ChecklistStatusType.TypeName,
            ChecklistStatusID = c.ChecklistStatusTypeID



        });

Thanks,

Rhonda

Answer 1

Be careful with your types:

public class AMWOTPortalDisplay

And then:

Select(c => new AMNotStartedPortalDisplay { ... })

It looks like your query should probably be:

Select(c => new AMWOTPortalDisplay { ... })