Search on all fields of an entity

Question

I\'m trying to implement an \"omnibox\"-type search over a customer database where a single query should attempt to match any properties of a customer.

Here\'s some samp

Answer 1

first find all properties within Customer class with same type as query:

var stringProperties = typeof(Customer).GetProperties().Where(prop =>
    prop.PropertyType == query.GetType());

then find all customers from context that has at least one property with value equal to query:

context.Customer.Where(customer => 
    stringProperties.Any(prop =>
        prop.GetValue(customer, null) == query));