Question

I need to return a list of items from my database that expire at a pre-specified time on the date supplied by the item. My erroneous code is as follows:

return All().Where(o => new DateTime(o.expiry_date.Year, o.expiry_date.Month, o.expiry_date.Day, 17, 30, 0) >= DateTime.Now)

The error I get is:

Only parameterless constructors and initializers are supported in LINQ to Entities

Does anyone know how I can fix this?

Answer 1

Use EntityFunctions instead. Maybe CreateDateTime method.

So maybe like this:

return All().Where(o => EntityFunctions.CreateDateTime(o.expiry_date.Year, o.expiry_date.Month, o.expiry_date.Day, 17, 30, 0) >= DateTime.Now)

Update:

When using EF6, use DbFunctions instead.