LINQ case sensitive

Question

How to make LINQ case sensitive and NOT case sensitive depending on the situation?

I\'m using sql server 2008 and Entity Framework 4.0.

I changed the COLLATI

Answer 1

LINQ has no concept of case sensitivity, it only cares about boolean evaluation. So if you want to ignore case, you should do something like:

query = query.Where(x => (x.Name.ToLower().Contains(Name.ToLower())));

Chances are you will want to pass a CultureInfo to ToLower() (or use ToLowerInvariant()), and you might want to cache the result of Name.ToLower() so as to not have to perform that operation a potentially large number of times, but this should get you started.