Search DataTable using LINQ

Question

           table
Sr. No. | Arrival    | Departure  | 
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1       | 10/08/2018 | 11/08/2018 |
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2       | 11/08/2018 | 12/08/2018 |
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3       | 12/08/2018 | 13/08/2018 |
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4       | 13/08/2018 | 14/08/2018 |

I have the dataTable name table. and i want to search data greater than 11/08/2018 and show result in dataGridView1 . I am using below code but its not working.

  var dtCurrnet = DateTime.Now.Date;

        EnumerableRowCollection<DataRow> query = from arrvDate in dtReservation.AsEnumerable()
                                     where arrvDate.Field<DateTime>("ArrvDate") > dtCurrnet
                                     select arrvDate;


        DataView view = query.AsDataView();
        DataTable dtTest = view.ToTable(); 

        dataGridView1.DataSource = dtTest;

I am having problem with "where arrvDate.Field("ArrvDate") > dtCurrnet" Getting Error Message "Specified cast is not valid"

Answer 1

Please make sure that the column type in your table is indeed a DateTime type. I've tried your query using the following test code and it worked just fine. I'm suspecting that the column type of your ArrvDate is not a DateTime , maybe it's a 'String' type.

One way to check the data type is with the following code, although it'll be much easier to set a breakpoint, debug, then inspect your data table

Console.WriteLine(dtReservation.Columns["ArrvDate"].DataType.FullName);

Anyway, following is the code example I used to validate your Linq query; it seems to work just fine.

var dtReservation = new DataTable();

dtReservation.Columns.Add("Sr. No.", typeof(Int32));
dtReservation.Columns.Add("ArrvDate", typeof(DateTime));
dtReservation.Columns.Add("Departure", typeof(DateTime));

dtReservation.Rows.Add(new Object[] { 1, new DateTime(2018, 8, 10), new DateTime(2018, 8, 11) });
dtReservation.Rows.Add(new Object[] { 2, new DateTime(2018, 8, 11), new DateTime(2018, 8, 12) });
dtReservation.Rows.Add(new Object[] { 3, new DateTime(2018, 8, 12), new DateTime(2018, 8, 13) });
dtReservation.Rows.Add(new Object[] { 4, new DateTime(2018, 8, 13), new DateTime(2018, 8, 14) });

var dtCurrnet = DateTime.Now.Date.AddDays(-11);

EnumerableRowCollection<DataRow> query =
    from arrvDate in dtReservation.AsEnumerable()
    where arrvDate.Field<DateTime>("ArrvDate") > dtCurrnet
    select arrvDate;

PS: I had to change your code slightly by subtracting 11 days to have it actually return a row from the query; since it's currently the 23rd and the example values you gave go until the 13th.