Linq to select data from one table not in other table
I will rewrite it to linq extension methods:
List<string> listString = db.Users.Where(e=>!db.Fi.Select(m=>m.UserID)
.Contains(e.UserID))
.Select(e=>e.UserName).ToList();
try it, it should work.
First, could you update your question with the entire method so that we can see what might be going on with the ViewBag
? Because your code should work just fine, assigning whatever value to the ViewBag is no problem normally:
ViewBag.property1 = 0;
ViewBag.property1 = "zero";
works just fine. ViewBag
is dynamic. Now, you could get that error if you would later try to assing ViewBag.ddlUserId
to something that actually is the wrong type.
I would like you to rewrite your statement as well, let me explain why. Assume for a moment that you have a lot ( > 100.000) of User
records in your db.Users
and we assume the same for Fi
as well. In your code, result1
and result2
are now two lists, one containing >100.000 User
objects and the other >100.000 Fi
objects. Then these two lists are compared to each other to produce a list of strings. Now imagine the resource required for your web server to process this. Under the assumption that your actually using/accessing a separate SQL server to retrieve your data from, it would be a lot better and faster to let that server do the work, i.e. producing the list of UserID's.
For that you'd either use Kirill Bestemyanov's answer or the following:
var list = (from user in db.Users
where !db.Fi.Any(f => f.UserID == user.UserID)
select user.UserName).ToList()
This will produce just one query for the SQL server to execute:
SELECT
[Extent1].[UserName] AS [UserName]
FROM [dbo].[Users] AS [Extent1]
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT
1 AS [C1]
FROM [dbo].[Fi] AS [Extent2]
WHERE [Extent2].[UserID] = [Extent1].[UserID]
)}
which in the end is what you want...
Just to clarify more:
var list = (from user in db.Users
where !db.Fi.Any(f => f.UserID == user.UserID)
select user.UserName).ToList()
can be written as the following lambda expression as well:
var list = db.Users.Where(user => !db.Fi.Any(f => f.UserID == user.UserID))
.Select(user => user.UserName).ToList()
which from the looks of it is slightly different from Kirill Bestemyanov's answer (which I slightly modified, just to make it look more similar):
var list = db.Users.Where(user => !db.Fi.Select(f => f.UserID)
.Contains(user.UserID))
.Select(user => user.UserName).ToList();
But, they will in fact produce the same SQL Statement, thus the same list.