Question

I need to get data based on date range like:

SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE 
myDate >= 'May 17 2012' AND 
myDate <= 'May 17 2012'

I have written this query in LINQ , the issue is that LINQ is converting this query to:

SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE 
myDate >= 'May 17 2012 12:00:00:000AM' AND 
myDate <= 'May 17 2012 12:00:00:000AM'

The problem is that LINQ is also considering the time part but I need to search only on date part.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Just wanted to share with you that i found the solution!

The EntityFunctions provide us TruncateTime(), which can used for this purpose.

EntityFunctions.TruncateTime

 from e in MyContext.MyTable.Where(a =>
 EntityFunctions.TruncateTime(a.DateTimeColumn) ==   
 EntityFunctions.TruncateTime(DateTime.Now))  select e;

EDIT:
For EntityFramework 6 and above:

 from e in MyContext.MyTable.Where(a =>
 DbFunctions.TruncateTime(a.DateTimeColumn) ==   
 DbFunctions.TruncateTime(DateTime.Now))  select e;

I found it here.