Casting to Decimal is not supported in LINQ to Entities queries

Question

I have a database table Transaction (transactionID, LocalAmount...). where datatype for Localamount property is float. ON the UI I am trying to return a

Answer 1

Sometimes need casting, if more than two decimal palaces

     double TotalQty;
     double.TryParse(sequence.Sum(x => x.Field("itemQty")).ToString(),out TotalQty);