LINQ and Dynamic Query – Comparing DateTime value

In one of our development, we end up with the situation that needs to check the DateTime value in Dynamic LINQ query. Trying different ways out there and googling a bit, finally got some useful references that helped us to resolve the same

Hope, you would love reading!

 

Example:

TestEntities te = new TestEntities();

string dateString = “12/01/2010”;

 

Used the following overload for “.Where” :

# 1:

IQueryable<T>.Where(Expression<Func<State, bool>> predicate)

var dateTest = te.SiteLogs

.Where(String.Format(“it.TimeStamp >= DATETIME ‘{0}'”, Convert.ToDateTime(dateString).ToString(“yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm”)))

.Select(“it.IPAddress”);

 

# 2:

IQueryable.Where(string predicate, params object[] values)

var dateTest1 = te.SiteLogs

.Where(“it.TimeStamp >= @0”,  Convert.ToDateTime(dateString))

.Select(“it.IPAddress”);

 

Observations:

In # 1,

• We need to say the “Time” format also, that is compulsory. Otherwise it would throw an error as well.  And again, the syntax with “DATETIME” is wired 🙂
• The resultant date format should be “yyyy-MM-dd “

 

In # 2,

Its clean and simple. I like this syntax. Here you can add any number of Params like @0, @1 & so on

 

References:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/01/07/dynamic-linq-part-1-using-the-linq-dynamic-query-library.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb399176.aspx