Database context and Return Dynamic Result Set in ASP.NET MVC

Question

In MVC 4 and EF 5 i want to run dynamic query.

var returndata = Context.Database.SqlQuery(Type, strsql, null);

i don\'t know, how many fie

Answer 1

Finally i made is using TypeBuilder option suggested by "Mortalus" and ExpandoObject object. It has little performance overhead right now.

Take Typebuilder code from "Mortalus" answer then i made code according to my requirement as below.

List<Dictionary<string, object>> expandolist = new List<Dictionary<string, object>>();

foreach (var item in returndata)
  {
  IDictionary<string, object> expando = new ExpandoObject();
  foreach (PropertyDescriptor propertyDescriptor in TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(item))
     {
      var obj = propertyDescriptor.GetValue(item);
      expando.Add(propertyDescriptor.Name, obj);
     }
     expandolist.Add(new Dictionary<string, object>(expando));
  }

  return expandolist;

so now, I have "Dictionary" object from dynamic object. and using it you can work easily at design time rather then wait until runtime using "dynamic" object.

Answer 2

You could use a raw SQL query because EF doesn't support that:

private static IEnumerable<object[]> Read(DbDataReader reader)
{
    while (reader.Read())
    {
        var values = new List<object>();
        for (int i = 0; i < reader.FieldCount; i++)
        {
            values.Add(reader.GetValue(i));
        }
        yield return values.ToArray();
    }
}

and then:

public ActionResult Index()
{
    using (var ctx = new UsersContext())
    using (var cmd = ctx.Database.Connection.CreateCommand())
    {
        ctx.Database.Connection.Open();
        cmd.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM UserProfile";
        using (var reader = cmd.ExecuteReader())
        {
            var model = Read(reader).ToList();
            return View(model);
        }
    }
}

and finally in your view:

@model IEnumerable<object[]>
<table>
    <tbody>
        @foreach (var row in Model)
        {
            <tr>
                @foreach (var column in row)
                {
                    <td>@column</td>
                }
            </tr>
        }
    </tbody>
</table>