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How to use LIKE keyword in Windows Phone 7

Riya Sehgal

15y2.3kC#

How to implement LIKE operator in this statement, this line display the exactly matched record from the database but I want to display the all matching records which contain the text what I type in textbox.

where var.Attribute("AuthorName").Value.ToLower() == textBox1.Text.ToLower()

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Deepak Verma15y ago
Accepted answer
Try this code:

where var.Attribute("AuthorName").Value.ToLower().IndexOf(textBox1.Text.ToLower()) != -1

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Jaganathan Bantheswaran15y ago
Hi,

obj.Where(var => var.Attribute("AuthorName").Value.ToLower().Contains(textBox1.Text.ToLower()))

you can also use .StartsWith() or .EndsWidth()