How to use ToShortDateString in linq lambda expression?

Question

I need to call ToShortDateString in a linq query suing lambda expressions:

toRet.Notification = Repositories
    .portalDb.portal_notifications.OrderByDescen         


        

Answer 1

You shouldn't be forcing a string comparison when what you're working with is Date/time data - as soon as you force string comparisons, you're suddenly having to deal with how the strings are formatted.

Instead, have something like:

var endDate = targetDate.AddDays(1);

toRet.Notification = Repositories
.portalDb.portal_notifications.OrderByDescending(p =>       p.id)
.FirstOrDefault(p => p.date >= targetDate && p.date < endDate);

(Assuming that targetDate is whatever DateTime variable you had that was used to produce shortDateString in your code, and is already a DateTime with no time value)