Question

I’m studying ASP.NET MVC and I use LINQ to SQL for model.

I have a table named “Note” with the fields “Title” and “Content”. The “Content” field can contain thousand characters.

What I want to do is to display the LIST of notes in a page. I use table with two columns, for “Title” and SUBSTRING of the “Content” (50 characters). My problem is, I don’t know how to edit the model so that it will display only the substring of the “Content”.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT:

I tried this codes:

        List<Note> notes = (from n in databaseModel.Notes
                           select new Note
                           {
                               ID = n.ID,
                               Title = n.Title,
                               Content = n.Content.Substring(0,50),
                               DateCreated = n.DateCreated,
                               DateModified = n.DateModified
                           }).ToList();

but gives me error:

Explicit construction of entity type 'domanokz.Models.Note' in query is not allowed.

Answer 1

I created a view of the table with one field truncated. I used the view to create class instead.