Question

I ‘ve written a Query with Linq and in one part of my code I try to assign string to an XML but an error occured:

Cannot implicitly convert type ‘string’ to ‘System.Xml.Linq.XElement’

This is my code:

public int Save(Route route)
{            
     aspnetdbDataContext aspdb = new aspnetdbDataContext();
     RouteLinq rtlq=new RouteLinq();
     rtlq.UserId = route.UserId;
     rtlq.SourceName = route.Name;

     //I have an error hier
     rtlq.GpxData = route.GpxData;
     //---------------------------
     rtlq.CreationTime = route.Time;
     aspdb.RouteLinqs.InsertOnSubmit(rtlq);
     aspdb.SubmitChanges();
}

How can I solve my problem?

Answer 1

Because GpxData is of type XML in your database you can’t assign string to it directly, you need to create an en XElement and then assign it the value:

rtlq.GpxData = new XElement(route.GpxData);

Where route.GpxData is of type string