The specified type member 'Date' is not supported in LINQ to Entities. Only initializers, entity members, and entity navigation properties

Question

Using this code in Entity Framework I receive the following error. I need to get all the rows for a specific date, DateTimeStart is of type Dat

Answer 1

Just use simple properties.

var tomorrow = currentDateTime.Date + 1;  
var eventsCustom = eventCustomRepository.FindAllEventsCustomByUniqueStudentReference(userDevice.UniqueStudentReference)
                            .Where(x =>  x.DateTimeStart >= currentDateTime.Date 
                                   and x.DateTimeStart < tomorrow);

If future dates are not possible in your app, then >= x.DateTimeStart >= currentDateTime.Date is sufficient.

if you have more complex date comparisons, then check Canonical functions and if you have EF6+ DB functions

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