C# - Using LINQ To SQL To Query A Word Started With Something Within String?
Dec 7, 2010
I'm using LINQ to SQL to query some data.Here's my Employees table colummns:
-FirstName (or givename i.e. John)
-LastName (has middle name and family name seperated by space i.e. Mac Tenny
Some people have middle name and some don't. Here's some sample data.
-FirstName LastName
John Mac Tenny (with middle name "Mac")
Mike Mika (no middle name)
[code]....
I want to query for people who have their middle or last name started with search criteria. Here's how I search for employees with middle name started with
"joe" :
query = From emp In db.Employees _
Where emp.LastName.StartsWith("joe") _
Select emp
How do I query for employees with family name(last part of the LastName) started with "joe"?
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Feb 3, 2011
I have the following routine (that works) but which is messy to update owing to the hand-typed strings it uses:
Private Sub ListDefaults()
Dim conn As New SqlConnection( _
"server=bas047AUTODESKVAULT;Database=DWGDetails;Integrated Security=SSPI")
'Dim conn As New SqlConnection( _
[code]....
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Oct 12, 2009
I've created a small WPF app in VB9 to catalog our sizable DVD collection. This exercise has been more about learn programming than the need to have a movie database app, but I digress.The SQL database I created has a field for "Genre" that does not have an entry for all the movies in our collection. As such, when I run the method that filters the movie listing by "Genre" the compiler throws the "StrongTypingException was unhandled" error stating "The value for column 'Genre' in table 'Movies' is DBNull.".
I now understand where the DBNull problem comes from and have been searching for several hours to find a VB solution that converts the DBNull fields to strings on the fly during the LINQ query. I've found many solutions people have tried but, since I'm quite new to all this, none of them have worked for me. Pasted below is the method that throws the exception.
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May 20, 2012
Is there a way to convert a string into a linq query? Searching for those words brings up tons of stuff unrelated to what I'm trying to do..For instance, this works, of course...
Dim lstMyQuery = (From item in htMyTable.values where item(0) = "Apple" Select item)
But somehow I want to do this:
Dim strQuery = "From item in htMyTable.values where item(0) = " & CHR(34) & "Apples" & CHR(34) & " Select item"
Dim lstMyQuery = (Somehow run/convert strQuery as a query)
The reason is strQuery will be different each time depending on what the user has selected earlier in the program.R if lstMyQuery is already a collection, is there a way to add to it?
Dim lstMyQuery = (From item in htMyTable.values where item(0) = "Apples" Select item)
(this obviously doesn't work, but it's basically what I want to do...)
lstMyQuery.Add(From item in htMyTable.values where item(0) = "Oranges" Select item)
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Jul 6, 2011
Is it wrong? Please suggest me correct way.
Public Function ReadXML() As List(Of String)
Dim list As New List(Of String)
Dim xmlDoc As XDocument = XDocument.Load("C:\MappingFile.xml")
[code].....
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Feb 3, 2012
I am using a path comparison to find any children tags which works well when there is only 1 tag selected. This is my code for when multiples tags are selected but it is not working. Can you point me in the right direction?
Single Tag Selection (working)
Dim tagpath = uxTags.SelectedItem.Text
lnqCases = From i In lnqCases Where i.HelpDeskTagItems.Any(Function(x)
[code]...
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Mar 8, 2011
What I'm trying to do is to write a generic rss reader that I plug in any URL into without worry if the feed has all the common properties. For instance in my example below I'm looking for pubDate, however if no pubDate exists in the xml I'd like to return the current Date. I cannot seem to get the syntax right though.
Dim xmldoc As New XDocument
xmldoc = XDocument.Load(url)
Dim feeds = From feed In xmldoc.Descendants("item") Select New With { _
[code].....
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Sep 22, 2009
I know that LINQ queries are deferred and only executed when the query is enumerated, but I'm having trouble figuring out exactly when that happens.Certainly in a For Each loop, the query would be enumerated.What's the rule of thumb to follow? I don't want to accidentally enumerate over my query twice if it's a huge result.
For example, does System.Linq.Enumerable.First enumerate over the whole query? I ask for performance reasons. I want to pass a LINQ result set to an ASP.NET MVC view, and I also want to pass the First element separately. Enumerating over the results twice would be painful.It would be great to turn on some kind of flag that alerts me each time a LINQ query is enumerated. That way I could catch scenarios when I accidentally enumerate twice.
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Oct 19, 2011
I am using DataSet.ReadXml() to create a DataSet from the following XML file, so that I can quickly query it using Linq.[URL]..I then use the following object to create a DataTable which can be used as a dictionary, with a ConvertToFriendlyFormat function that takes an Emulator_Id and and a string that corresponds to a DicEntry node's StoredFormat attributed, and return the same node's FriendlyFormat attribute.
This does work BUT it is extremely slow (~11 seconds to call it ~220 times). I have been unable to figure out how create the DataSet when the object is initialised and just query the simple DataTable in the ConvertToFriendlyFormat call. I guess this is what is slowing it down?
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Jul 14, 2011
given this function:
Public Function Search(ByVal StartIndex As Integer, _
ByVal MaxResults As Integer, _
ByVal AccountNumber As String, _
ByVal LastName As String, _
[Code]....
instead of what I expected:
Select count(*) from remitline where lastname = "smith"
What am I doing wrong building up the where clause? I'm using Castle ActiveRecord 2.1
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Aug 6, 2009
if there is that much of a performance gain in running a LINQ stored procedure versus a LINQ query?
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Sep 14, 2010
I have to join two main tables, and I need to filter the results by elements in an ASP.NET web form. These filters are created on the fly so I have to use a lot of where extensions to filter the query. I want to execute the query with as optimized SQL as possible.
I am first doing a simple join between TW_Sites and TW_Investigators. Then there are two sub-tables that are involved. TW_InvestigatorToArea and TW_InvestigatorToDisease. While most of the where clauses are working fine, I have found a performance issue that won't be an issue right now, but will be an issue as the table gets bigger.
The arrays DiseaseCategories and DiseaseAreas would be the results of a CheckBoxList result.
Protected Sub LoadResults()
'Get Dictionary of Filters
Dim FilterDictionary As OrderedDictionary = Session.Item("InvestigatorFilterDictionary")
' Initialize LinqToSql
[code]....
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Oct 31, 2011
I have 7 company Divisions that sit in an access database.I then use this list to populate two comboboxes in my windows form.However I get a syntax error in my SQL Query if the Division name is more than one word.For example in my access database I have two columns one is a status column and the other is a division column. If for example the Division is called 'Corporate' the status column is called 'Status Corporate' and the division column is called 'Corporate'.The SQL query works fine in this scenario.However if I have a Division that is more than one word, lets say 'Operations Division' I get an error in my SQL Query that says -
Quote: Syntax error (missing operator) in query expression 'Operations Division'.Here is my code
sqlNewTenderDetails = "SELECT " & Me.DivisionBox.SelectedValue & " From BidRefCodes Where " & "[Status " & Me.DivisionBox.SelectedValue & "='Active'"
daNewTenderDetails = New OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter(sqlNewTenderDetails, NewTenderDetailsTableCon)[code]....
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Mar 31, 2011
Forgive my ignorance on this.I have this LINQ Query:Dim ngBikersDataContext As New CarBikeWalkDataContext
bikersList = (From c In ngBikersDataContext.Reg_Bikers _
Order By c.L_Name _
Select New Bikers() With { _
.BikerID = c.BikerID, _
.F_Name = c.F_Name, _
[Code]...
with the error "Overload resolution failed because no accesible 'Select' accepts this number of arguments."
Over the "NEW" I get an error " ')'expected."
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Mar 6, 2009
I'm trying to write a function to find a word in a string in the this format : "ThisissometextthatIneedtofindandthisisthetext. This is another text."It's read as " This is some text that I need to find and this is the text. This is another text." but there is no space between each word. I want to get the word "text" or any word in that string. Can you help me with this function with a code sample ?
And I think that this method can be implemented with a string of Unicode also because in a sentence of Unicode it contains one or few, sometimes zero spaces between each word.
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Jan 27, 2011
We are doing a query against an in-memory collection of LINQ data objects. The wrinkle is that we are ordering by a column in a related table whose records have not necessarily been loaded yet (deferred loading:)
Dim oPkgProducts = _
From b In oBillPkg.BillProducts _
Where b.Successful.GetValueOrDefault(Common.X_INDETERMINATE) = _
[code]....
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Aug 31, 2011
How do I add ROW_NUMBER to a LINQ query or Entity? How can I convert this solution to VB.NET?
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I'm having trouble porting that last line. I have been unable to locate a VB.NET example. I'm actually not looking for any paging functionality like the example provides, just good old-fashioned Row_Number(Order By X) row index.
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Apr 16, 2011
I was wandering is it possible to use a query within another query below is the code I am trying to use.
Public Function GetInventByComp(ByVal CompID As String) Using DC As New DataClassDataContext
'need to get company id's based off names? thats bad should be name from Id need to rethink this
Dim invent = (From C In DC.Inventors_Companies _
Where C.CompID = CompID _
Select C.InventorID).ToString
[Code]...
I was trying to us multiple values in a string like "1, 3, 5" but I can't seem to get that working either so I am trying to use just a single value now. Can anyone help me? "Yes I am new to this"
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Sep 4, 2009
I've been reading a fair bit about the performance of using LINQ rather than using a for each loop and from what I understand using a LINQ query would be a little bit slower but generally worth it for convenience and expressiveness. However I am a bit confused about how much slower it is if you were to use the results of the query in a for loop.
Let's say that I have a set called 'Locations' and a set of objects called 'Items'. Each 'item' can only belong to one 'location'. I want to link items that are under the same location to each other. If I were to do this using a normal 'For Each' loop it would be something like this:
For Each it as Item in Items
If it.Location.equals(Me.Location)
Me.LinkedItems.Add(it)
End If
Next
However if i was to use LINQ it would instead be this:
For Each it as Item in Items.Where(Function(i) i.Location.equals(Me.Location))
Me.LinkedItems.Add(it)
Next
is the second (LINQ) option going to loop once through the entire 'Items' set to complete the query, then loop through the results to add them to the list, resulting in essentially two loops, or will it do the one loop like the first (For Each) option?
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Mar 24, 2012
Is it possible to do the following? [code] Basically I have one Load_Gridview function that is called on all postbacks, and rather than creating a bunch of different cases.I want the filters to stack.My actual code has more filters set up (4 or 5 of the).It all compiles ok but when I run and try to execute with active checked, or a department selected I get the following error. [code]
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May 5, 2009
I have below XML file
<?
xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><
PageFlow>
<
attributegroup name="Search"><
attributes>
[Code]...
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Apr 18, 2012
I am looking to sum the "Status" field.
Dim _detailRecords As New DataTable
_detailRecords.Columns.Add("y")
_detailRecords.Columns.Add("z")
[Code]....
I'm also wanting to keep this as an IEnumerable of DataRow because I will be creating a datatable from it with
Dim yyyyy As DataTable = query8.CopyToDataTable
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Aug 13, 2010
I am Fairly new to Linq and I am trying to write a simple query to return the error messages within my xml file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Error xmlns="urn:xxxxx">
The following errors were detected:
[code].....
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Jul 20, 2009
I am trying to create a function that searches each line of a richtextbox and returns that row if one of many search phrases are found.The app works wonderfully when used with longer words or muli word phrases as the search criteria.The problem I have is if the search word/ criteria contains a small string such as bae or sp then I get alot of false positives. Anytime bae or sp is found within any word it returns the results.I need the function to stop looking within the words for results and instead look at the word as a whole for a match.Below you can see that I am taking each line of text in the richtextbox, removing most non-alpha numberic characters and replacing them with spaces.Then I have it remove any double spaces with single spaces.For the search term list I have it take the text before the delimiter;and do the same.Trouble I am having is,if the search term is SP and the search phrase is "This is a space shuttle lauch"it will return the sentence since the sentence contains the word "space" which starts with sp.[code]
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Aug 26, 2009
if I run this under c#
from p in Addresses where p.Address2 == null select p.AddressID
it generate this query
SELECT [t0].[AddressID]
FROM [dbo].[Address] AS [t0]
WHERE [t0].[Address2] IS NULL
if I run this under vb.net
from p in Addresses where p.Address2 = nothing select p.AddressID
it generate this query
SELECT [t0].[AddressID]
FROM [dbo].[Address] AS [t0]
WHERE [t0].[Address2] = ''
p.Address2 is a varchar field that accept null value
why vb.net is "wrong" ?
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Dec 1, 2009
I'm converting the Linq query below from C# to VB.Net. Can you spot my error? The query joins 3 XML datasets. C# - This one works great.
List<Course> courses =
(from course in CourseXML.Descendants(ns + "row")
join coursecategory in CourseCategoryXML.Descendants("Table") on (string)course.Attribute("code") equals (string)coursecategory.Element("DATA")
[code]....
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Mar 14, 2011
I have been trying the following but it returns unexpected results:
Dim xd As XDocument = _
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root>
[code].....
The above result returns both 'element' nodes however it should only return the first where element/subelement@id=1/subsubelement@id=3 However if results.Ancestors. is used it returns the correct 'subelement' and if that line is not included it returns a single 'subsubelement' whih is also correct I don't understand why when mvoing to the 'element' it returns both (I realise both have a subelement with id=1 but I thought each further query would filter out the presvious results)?
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Feb 22, 2012
I have a List of Price Objects (Price contains Date, High, Low) and am trying to extract monthly averages via LINQ. I have this working in C# but we have a few legacy applications that need it in VB.Net and I can't quite seem to figure out the conversion. I've even tried breaking it into two queries to no avail.
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Jun 24, 2011
Ok im trying to do a if statement in Linq and was wondering if it was possible to do something like:
Dim loadFriends = From p In db.UserRelationships Where p.aspnet_User.UserName = User.Identity.Name _
Or p.aspnet_User1.UserName = User.Identity.Name And p.Type = 1 _
Select New With {if p.aspnet_user1.user = "a certan username" then .username = _
p.aspnet_user.username else .username = p.aspnet_user1.Username}
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Sep 2, 2011
Dim query = From o In myContainer.MyObjects Select o.MyStringProperty Distinct
Dim myProperties As List(Of String) = query.ToList????? 'no way!!!'
"query" type is IEnumerable(Of String)
I tried to use the query directly as a DataSource of a (infragistic) combobox, but it throws me NullReferenceException, so I decided to convert it to a listof strings, to be a more "classical" datasource.
Dim values As List(Of String) = query.AsQueryable().ToList()
does not work either: Value of type 'System.Collections.Generic.List(Of System.Linq.IQueryable(Of String))' cannot be converted to 'System.Collections.Generic.List(Of String)'.
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