I normally don’t use GridView a lot. but once in a while its nice to be able to fast show some data. if you assign the data source on a GridView a LINQ query it seems to work.
But if you add conditions to the query you will properly see the below error
The LINQ expression node type 'Invoke' is not supported in LINQ to Entities.
Well, Google and you’ll find a few solutions, the one I preferred where using linked and the apply AsExpandable. That solved one issue, but then you will get
The data source does not support server-side data paging
lastly, once this is done, you might get an error when doing the actually paging
The GridView 'GridView1' fired event PageIndexChanging which wasn't handled.
One way to handle this is to convert the result to a data table. a comment on this blog gave a simple way of doing that. So here is a short example of it all
Dim predicate = PredicateBuilder.False(Of ModelprovExchangeQueues.FseQuarantine)()
For Each email In CurrentUser.emails
Dim emailAddress As String = email.Email
predicate = predicate.Or(Function(x) x.RecipientAddresses.Contains(emailAddress))
Next
Dim query = _db.FseQuarantine.AsExpandable().Where(predicate)
Dim dt As Data.DataTable = query.ToDataTable
GridView1.AllowPaging = True
GridView1.DataSource = dt
End Sub
Protected Sub GridView1_PageIndexChanging(sender As Object, e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridViewPageEventArgs) Handles GridView1.PageIndexChanging
GridView1.PageIndex = e.NewPageIndex
GridView1.DataBind()
End Sub