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POUsing date comparison in LINQ when querying SharePoint OData service
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    copied!<p><strong>ANSWERED: Go below to find my answer to this question.</strong></p> <p>I am trying to consume SharePoint 2010 OData from an ASP.NET MVC 3 project using LINQ. I created a default project using the ASP.NET MVC 3 project template with the Razor view engine (VS 2010). I added a service reference pointing to my SharePoint 2010 site.</p> <p>In my HomeController's Index method (this is just a test project), I created a variable to hold the context and set the Credentials property of the context variable to the current default credentials.</p> <p>A link query like the following works fine and I can use the created variable to access any of the data:</p> <pre><code>var query = from a in context.Alerts select a; </code></pre> <p>This query simply gets all of the announcements from a list called Alerts in the SharePoint site. This list has fields for the Title, Content, Beginning Date, and Expiration Date.</p> <p>When I change the query to the following, I do not get the expected results:</p> <pre><code>var query = from a in context.Alerts where (a.Begins &lt; DateTime.Now) select a; </code></pre> <p>This query ignores the time component of the date. For example, if a.Begins contains a datetime from yesterday, the query returns the AlertItem. If on the other hand, a.Begins contains a datetime with the current date (but an earlier time) the comparison returns false (and a.Begins == DateTime.Now returns true).</p> <p>If I do the following, the second LINQ query works as expected:</p> <pre><code>var query = (from a in context.Alerts select a).ToList(); var query2 = from q in query where (q.Begins &lt; DateTime.Now) select q; </code></pre> <p>What am I missing?</p>
 

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