The entity cannot be constructed in a LINQ to Entities query

Question

There is an entity type called Product that is generated by entity framework. I have written this query

public IQueryable GetProdu         


        

Answer 1

In many cases, the transformation is not needed. Think for the reason you want the strongly type List, and evaluate if you just want the data, for example, in a web service or for displaying it. It does not matter the type. You just need to know how to read it and check that is identical to the properties defined in the anonymous type that you defined. That is the optimun scenario, cause something you don't need all the fields of an entity, and that's the reason anonymous type exists.

A simple way is doing this:

IEnumerable