Question

I use c#, linq and EF4 I would like ask your help.

My question:
I have a linq query, but i need the result for this query be inserted in an array string.
Value added should be Title and ContentId (ContentId from EF is an INT but i need it as a string)

Please let me know, many thanks in advances!PS: Please post the full code 🙂

       public static string[] GetCompletionList(string prefixText, string count)
{
    using (CmsConnectionStringEntityDataModel context = new CmsConnectionStringEntityDataModel())
    {
    var queryTitle = (from content in context.CmsContents
                      select new
                      {
                          Title = content.Title, // String
                          ContentId = content.ContentId.ToString() // Int
                      }).ToArray();
    return queryTitle;


    }

Answer 1

If you want to have ContentId as a string, then do this:

var queryTitle = (from content in context.CmsContents
                 select new
                 {
                     Title = content.Title, // String
                     ContentId = content.ContentId.ToString() // Int
                 }).ToArray();

queryTitle will be an array of the anonymous type created, which has two properties:

1. Title
2. ContentId

Both of type string.

If you don’t want to have an array of the anonymous type, but an array of strings, then use this code:

var queryTitles = (from content in context.CmsContents
                 select "Title: " + content.Title + ", ContentId: " +  content.ContentId.ToString()).ToArray();