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Asked: 2026-06-11T13:25:30+00:00

I’ve looked everywhere on the internet. What I’ve found is that people use Entity’s

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I’ve looked everywhere on the internet. What I’ve found is that people use Entity’s framework to communicate with the Database. There’s is a function in this framework called Any<> that mimics Contains() SQL method. I tried to implement the ANY<> method but it doesn’t work. It kept giving me conversion type errors.

So my question is this… what is the CORRECT way of implementing ANY<> function. Hope some guru can answer soon. Thanks in advance!

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So just for some context, I had something like this:

   public static List<PhotoAlbumDto> searchAlbumsFromDA(string inputName)
    {
        EzPrintsEntities db = new EzPrintsEntities();
        List<PhotoAlbum> albums = db.PhotoAlbums.ToList().Any(b => b.NAME == inputName);
    }

The second like would throw me an :

Error 14 Cannot implicitly convert type ‘bool’ to ‘System.Collections.Generic.List’ C:\Users\cding\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\ConsoleApplication6\EZP.Album.Data\PhotoAlbumDA.cs 22 39 EZP.Album.Data

I think I know the reason why this is giving me an error, but I don’t know how to fix it. I’m simply trying to search the database for any PhotoAlbum Objects that matches a certain name.

EDIT: New Question: How do you use Where<> to search for things that match to part of it?

For Example:

User wants to search up: funny

then my search function will return anything that has the word “funny” in it, such as funnygirls, funnydogs, funnypeople, funnybikes, etc…

I implemented the Where<>, but i doesn’t do the feature above? Is there any fixes? or any Alternatives?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m simply trying to search the database for any PhotoAlbum Objects
    that matches a certain name.

    Why are you wanting to use any? Any will return a boolean of is there anything in the DB that matches this? Think of it like this:

    Any: Does anything in my list match this?

    Where: Give me anything in my list that matches this.

    I think you’re actually wanting where:

    db.PhotoAlbums.Where(b => b.NAME == inputName).ToList();
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