Question

I have a table with users. I want to be able to search for a string and then return all username which contains this string. Then i want to populate a ListBox. This is what I have tried:

var varUser = (from u in dc.Users
                           where u.username == searchUserName
                           select u.username);
            lbSearchResult.DataSource = varUser;
            lbSearchResult.DataBind();

But when i try to search for “a” i don’t get any results. It only works if i enter the full username.

Answer 1

Try using Contains() instead:

var varUser = from u in dc.Users
              where u.username.Contains(searchUserName)
              select u.username;