IQueryable to List

Question

I\'m using System.Linq.Dynamic to allow me to dynamically select a list of fields from a query like this:

finalQuery = query.Select(string.Format(\"new({0})\", s         


        

Answer 1

This appears to be a limitation in the way LINQ to Entities translates IQueryable.Cast with anonymous types. You can work around this by using it as an IEnumerable (your working example does this). This causes the code to do the cast in the .NET runtime after it's retrieved from the DB, instead of trying to handle it in the DB engine. E.g.

IEnumerable finalQuery = query.Select(string.Format("new({0})",
                                                   string.Join(",", selectors)));
var result = finalQuery.Cast().ToList();

Or

public static IList CastToList(this IEnumerable source)
{
    return new List(source.Cast());
}

var finalQuery = query.Select(string.Format("new({0})",
                                            string.Join(",", selectors)));
var result = finalQuery.CastToList();