Question

I have a linq query from two database, however, each time the program stops at the query point. I don’t know how to debug linq using VS. Can someone help me figure it out what’s wrong here? Thank you.

public List<Promotion> GetBroder(string source)
        {
            string _connString = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["DB1"];
            PromotionDataContext dc = new PromotionDataContext(_connString);
            string connString = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["DB2"];
            ReachDirectDataContext RDdc = new ReachDirectDataContext(connString);
            return (from b in RDdc.BrokerNos
                    from p in dc.Promotions
                    where p.Source == source && p.Broker == b.BrokerNo1
                    select new Promotion() {Code=p.Code,BrokerName=b.Name}).ToList<Promotion>();
        }

Answer 1

You can use the following to display the generated SQL for the Linq statement.

ReachDirectDataContext RDdc = new ReachDirectDataContext(connString);

RDdc.Log = Console.Out;

return (from b in RDdc.BrokerNos
        from p in dc.Promotions     
        where p.Source == source && p.Broker == b.BrokerNo1
        select new Promotion() {Code=p.Code,BrokerName=b.Name}).ToList<Promotion>();

You can try the following to separate out the queries.

var promotions = from p in dc.Promotions
                 where p.Source == source
                 select p;

var brokers = from o in promotions
              join b in RDdc.BrokerNos on o.Broker equals b.BrokerNo1
              select new Promotion 
              {
                  Code = o.Code,
                  BrokerName = b.Name
              };
return brokers.ToList();