Question

I am trying to write a textbox that will search on 5 DB columns and will return every result of a given search, ex. ‘Red’ would return: red ball, Red Williams, etc. Any examples or similar things people have tried. My example code for the search.

Thanks.

    ItemMasterDataContext db = new ItemMasterDataContext();      string s = txtSearch.Text.Trim();     var q = from p in db.ITMSTs             where p.IMITD1.Contains(s) ||              p.IMITD2.Contains(s) ||              p.IMMFNO.Contains(s) ||              p.IMITNO.Contains(s) ||              p.IMVNNO.Contains(s)             select p;      lv.DataSource = q;     lv.DataBind(); 

Answer 1

You can do something like this (syntax may be off )

using(var db = new ItemMasterDataContext()) {     var s = txtSearch.Text.Trim();     var result = from p in db.ITMSTs select p;      if( result.Any(p=>p.IMITD1.Contains(s))          lv.DataSource = result.Where(p=>p.IMITD1.Contains(s))     else if ( result.Any(p=>p.IMITD2.Contains(s))         lv.DataSource = result.Where(p=>p.IMITD1.Contains(s))      lv.DataBind(); } 

or you might want to use this Link or this Link from MSDN.

Happy Coding!!