LINQ to Entities does not recognize the method 'Int32

Question

public ActionResult ReadXMLDevices(int groupID)
{             
    var query = from k in XMLEntities.unassigneditems
    where k.DevOrAcc == true && k.Group          


        

Answer 1

There is another easy way.

First, load the data from database to memory:

// ...
var query_view = from i in query
                 select i;

query_view.Load();
// ...

Then, do whatever you want with linq-to-objects, not L2E:

var view_query_1 = from i in DbContext.myEntities.Local
                 select new GetFreeDevices
                 {
                     MArticleNumber = i.ArticleNumber,
                     MFirmware = i.Firmware,
                     MGroup = i.Group,
                     MName = i.Name,
                     MSoftware = i.SoftwareVersion,
                     SA = GetNumberOfDevices(i.ArticleNumber,2),   //
                     STH = GetNumberOfDevices(i.ArticleNumber,3),  // These are now ok!
                     SASTH = GetNumberOfDevices(i.ArticleNumber,7) //
                 };
    return PartialView(view_query_1.AsEnumerable());

You can use this trick for any methods that L2E doesn't support.

Answer 2

You can split your query in two to make sure the list is in-memory before calling the GetNumberOfDevices() method. You can make a query in-memory by converting the results to a List, or in this case a List<GetFreeDevices>. That way, LinQ to Entities does not have to do any translations to and from XML and you can use your GetNumberOfDevices() method.

var view_query = (from i in query
     select new GetFreeDevices
     {
        MArticleNumber = i.ArticleNumber,
        MFirmware = i.Firmware,
        MGroup = i.Group,
        MName = i.Name,
        MSoftware = i.SoftwareVersion

     }).ToList();
var result_query = from i in query
     select new GetFreeDevices
     {
        MArticleNumber = i.MArticleNumber,
        MFirmware = i.MFirmware,
        MGroup = i.MGroup,
        MName = i.MName,
        MSoftware = i.MSoftware,
        SA = GetNumberOfDevices(i.MArticleNumber,2),
        STH = GetNumberOfDevices(i.MArticleNumber,3),
        SASTH = GetNumberOfDevices(i.MArticleNumber,7)
     };
return PartialView(result_query);

Please note that the last statement requires the PartialView to accept a list or IEnumerable instead of an IQueryable.