Question

I am trying to get decimal value using LINQ in a MVC3 project.

How do I get it? it looks easy question, but I cannot get single decimal value not list which is Product.aWeekPrice.

How can I get the particular threeDayPrice? After getting threeDayPrice, it will be used in if condition for giving different conditions as you can see in my code below:

    public decimal GetTotal(decimal price)
    {
        // Multiply product price by count of that album to get 
        // the current price for each of those product in the cart
        // sum all product price totals to get the cart total

        //In select part, I have got error, 'cannot convert type 
        //'System.Linq.IQueryable<decimal>' to 'decimal'

        decimal threeDayPrice = (from cartItems in db.Cart
                              where cartItems.cartId == ShoppingCartId
                                 select (decimal)cartItems.Product.threeDayPrice);

        decimal aWeekPrice = (from cartItems in db.Cart
                                 where cartItems.cartId == ShoppingCartId
                                 select (decimal)cartItems.Product.aWeekPrice);

        if (price == threeDayPrice)
        {
            decimal? total = (from cartItems in db.Cart
                              where cartItems.cartId == ShoppingCartId
                              select (int?)cartItems.count * cartItems.Product.threeDayPrice).Sum();
            return total ?? decimal.Zero;
        }

        else if (price == aWeekPrice)
        {
            decimal? total = (from cartItems in db.Cart
                              where cartItems.cartId == ShoppingCartId
                              select (int?)cartItems.count * cartItems.Product.aWeekPrice).Sum();
            return total ?? decimal.Zero;
        }        
    }

Answer 1

If your query always returns only one value use .Single() to get it as decimal instead of a collection of decimals.

    decimal threeDayPrice = (from cartItems in db.Cart
                          where cartItems.cartId == ShoppingCartId
                             select (decimal)cartItems.Product.threeDayPrice).Single();

    decimal aWeekPrice = (from cartItems in db.Cart
                             where cartItems.cartId == ShoppingCartId
                             select (decimal)cartItems.Product.aWeekPrice).Single();

If there is a possibility that the query will return more then one or zero elements use First()/FirstOrDefault() instead.