ASP.NET Core & EntityFramework Core: Left (Outer) Join in Linq

If you need to do the Left joins then you have to use into and DefaultIfEmpty() as shown below. var result = from person in _dbContext.Person join detail in _dbContext.PersonDetails on person.Id equals detail.PersonId into Details from m in Details.DefaultIfEmpty() select new { id = person.Id, firstname = person.Firstname, lastname = person.Lastname, detailText = m.DetailText … Read more

Greater Than Condition in Linq Join

You can’t do that with a LINQ joins – LINQ only supports equijoins. However, you can do this: var query = from e in entity.M_Employee from p in entity.M_Position where e.PostionId >= p.PositionId select p; Or a slightly alternative but equivalent approach: var query = entity.M_Employee .SelectMany(e => entity.M_Position .Where(p => e.PostionId >= p.PositionId));

Multiple WHERE clause in Linq

Well, you can just put multiple “where” clauses in directly, but I don’t think you want to. Multiple “where” clauses ends up with a more restrictive filter – I think you want a less restrictive one. I think you really want: DataTable tempData = (DataTable)grdUsageRecords.DataSource; var query = from r in tempData.AsEnumerable() where r.Field<string>(“UserName”) != … Read more

How LINQ works internally?

It makes more sense to ask about a particular aspect of LINQ. It’s a bit like asking “How Windows works” otherwise. The key parts of LINQ are for me, from a C# perspective: Expression trees. These are representations of code as data. For instance, an expression tree could represent the notion of “take a string … Read more