Question

I have a DateTime type column named “CreatedDate” in my sql table, and am passing the value for this column by using “DateTime.Now” from my asp.net application….

The datas in my CreatedDate column are,

 CreatedDate
 -----------
 2012-05-07 18:56:17.487
 2012-05-07 18:56:28.443
 2012-05-07 19:21:24.497
 2012-05-14 15:22:04.587

I need to get the datas with this CreatedDate.

in my entity framework I tried the condition like

DataAccess.Entities dataEntities = new DataAccess.Entities();

DataAccess.Employee employee = dataEntities.Employees
                              .First(e => e.CreatedDate == DateTime.Today);

like this, I have data for this date(2012-05-14) , but the mininutes part differes (the DateTime.Today gives '2012-05-14 12:00:000' like this) here, and it shows error like, sequence contains no element….

How can I compare the ‘Date’ alone in Linq…..can anyone help me here,,,

Answer 1

I just declared two variable like

DateTime date1=DateTime.Now.Date;
DateTime date2=DateTime.Now.Date.AddDays(1);

and in the condition I used these variables like

DataAccess.Employee employee = dataEntities.Employees
                          .First(e => e.CreatedDate >= date1 
                                   && e.CreatedDate < date2);

its working….