How to use Select Statement in LINQ

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good day all, i have this simple table of session, it has a column Enddate, StartDate

I just wrote this simple code using Linq to select the StartDate on page load

C#

  var acc = sdc.Sessions
                .Where(x=> x.StartDate == DateTime.Now.ToString())
                .Select(x => new { x.StartDate });
            Label1.Text = acc.ToString();

// on preview instead of showing me the date it will show me this
//SELECT [t0].[StartDate] FROM [dbo].[Session] AS [t0] WHERE [t0].[StartDate] = @p0 

//Instead the actual date on the StartDate column... Someone should please help me out thanks

Posted 15-Dec-13 22:30pm

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Karthik_Mahalingam · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-15T22:41:00

Hi Try like this,,

Where clause returns more than one results, more over its is of type IEnumerable<t> </t>.
You should use First,FirstOrDefault, Single ,SingleOrDefault , or Index . to get single item value from the collection for reading the property.

C#

var acc = sdc.Sessions.FirstOrDefault(x => x.StartDate == DateTime.Now.ToString());
           if( acc != null)
           Label1.Text = acc.StartDate.ToString();