Question

I have an Advanced Search form, It contains, input boxes, dropdown lists, etc. And now I want to change a dropdown list to a multiselect list.

I can set the view, like this:

@Html.ListBoxFor(model => model.IdState, null, new { size = "7" })

But I don’t know how to change the controller from:

public ActionResult Index(FormData model)
{
    IQueryable<mytable> results = from s in db.mytable.Include("State").where(s=> (model.IdState != null ? s.IdState == model.IdState : true)) select s;
    return View(result);
}

To a multiple IdState Result???

Earlier the IdState was:

int IdState;

Now is:

IEnumerable<int> IdState;

Thanks for your time!

I still can’t make it work. In SQL will be:

SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE IdState IN (1,2,5,7,10)

Any Idea? The http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/aa336746.aspx Don’t show similar situation

Workaround

I found on this discussion: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/adodotnetentityframework/thread/095745fe-dcf0-4142-b684-b7e4a1ab59f0/ this code snippet:

IQueryable<Foo> foos = context.Foo.Where("it.Id in {1, 2, 3, ...}");

I changed to

string sState = "";
foreach (int a in model.IdState ) sState += (a.ToString() + ",");
sState = sState .Substring(0, sState .Length - 1);
IQueryable<mytable> results = from s in db.mytable.Where("it.IdState in {" + sState + "}");

And It works great!!!

I hope can find the final solution

Answer 1

Instead of

s.IdState == model.IdState 

try using

model.IdState.Contains(s.IdState)