Using “Match” in a Linq statement

Question

I have a table that has two records (there will be many at runtime). The deviceId of the records are, “DEVICE1” and “DEVICE2”. I want to use a regular expressio

Answer 1

LinqToEntities does not support pushing Regex's down to the database. Just do Contains (which gets converted to sql... where DeviceId Like '%DEVICE%').

    filterText = @"DEVICE.";


    using (var ctx = new MyEntities())
    {
            var devices = from d in ctx.Devices
                          d.DeviceId.Contains(filterText)

                          select d;
            return devices.ToList();
        }