Entity Framework - ridiculous Query, casting smallint to int for comparison [duplicate]

Answer 1

You need to create the Where expression yourself using the static functions in the Expression class.

Like this:

Int16 bucketId = 3;

var parameter = Expression.Parameter(typeof(SimStgTrade));
var property = Expression.PropertyOrField(parameter, "BucketRef");
var constant = Expression.Constant(bucketId);
var comparison = Expression.Equal(property, constant);

var lambda = Expression.Lambda>(comparison, parameter);

var tradesQuery = repository.SimStgTrade
  .Where(lambda)
  .Where(x => x.VariantNo == set)
  .ToArray();

Do the same for VariantNo == set in order to remove that cast as well