Question

I want to insert into my table a column named ‘S’ that will get some string value based on a value it gets from a table column.

For example: for each ID (a.z) I want to gets it’s string value stored in another table. The string value is returned from another method that gets it through a Linq query.

• Is it possible to call a method from Linq?
• Should I do everything in the same query?

This is the structure of the information I need to get:

a.z is the ID in the first square in table #1, from this ID I get another id in table #2, and from that I can get my string value that I need to display under column ‘S’.

var q = (from a in v.A join b in v.B
    on a.i equals b.j
    where a.k == "aaa" && a.h == 0
    select new {T = a.i, S = someMethod(a.z).ToString()})
    return q;

The line S = someMethod(a.z).ToString() causing the following error:

Unable to cast object of type ‘System.Data.Linq.SqlClient.SqlColumn’
to type ‘System.Data.Linq.SqlClient.SqlMethodCall’.

Answer 1

You have to execute your method call in Linq-to-Objects context, because on the database side that method call will not make sense – you can do this using AsEnumerable() – basically the rest of the query will then be evaluated as an in memory collection using Linq-to-Objects and you can use method calls as expected:

var q = (from a in v.A join b in v.B
        on a.i equals b.j
        where a.k == "aaa" && a.h == 0
        select new {T = a.i, Z = a.z })
        .AsEnumerable()
        .Select(x => new { T = x.T, S = someMethod(x.Z).ToString() })