Question

Is there any Inbuilt function in Linq to Print the month Name while working with LINQPAD?

I want to print the month name in the following Scenario

var query = from e in Employees
           let month=e.BirthDate.GetValueOrDefault()
           let birthmonth=month.ToString("MMMM")
           select birthmonth;
           query.Dump();

When I run this it is throwing NotSupportedException.
how to print the month name in Linq to Sql?

Answer 1

Rather than using ToString, try string.Format. Something like:

var query = (from e in Employees
           let month = e.BirthDate.GetValueOrDefault()
           let birthmonth = string.Format("{0:MMMM}", month)
           select birthmonth);
query.Dump();

This seems to work from my local testing, although it is not included as part of the SQL query.