Question

I have a field in my database table that use to store an enumeration value, e.g.:

create table MyTable (
  ...
  Status tinyint not null,
  ...
)

and in my C# class I have

public enum TStatus : byte {
  Pending = 1      
  Active = 2,
  Inactive = 3,
}

public TStatus MyStatus {
  get { return (TStatus)Status; }
  set { Status = (byte)value; }
}

now I want to write a Linq query that uses the MyStatus property of MyTable e.g.

var q = MyDataContext.GetTable<MyTable>().Where(t => t.MyStatus == TStatus.Active);

but of course, Linq doesn’t know how to interpret MyStatus as SQL.
What do I need to do to MyStatus in order for it to work in LinqToSQL?

Answer 1

Check out this link:

http://dotnet.org.za/hiltong/archive/2008/08/06/using-enums-with-linq-to-sql.aspx

As links die – and at least for me this one did die – here is the important part:

[When adding the column to the entity] by default, the Type will come up as an “int (System.Int32)”, but you can change it to the fully-qualified type of the enum (in my case, ConsoleApplication1.CustomerType). BUT, in order to locate it fully, you have to add the global identifier, as follows: global::ConsoleApplication1.CustomerType , so type that as is (but the equivalent for your namespace) into the textbox