How to solve missing cast error in LINQ?

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Hi friends, i used following linq statements to avoid the foreach statement

linq

XmlNode node = (from XmlNode x in ThisAddIn.XmlNodesModelStyles where styleName == x.Attributes["name"].Value select x);

foreach

C#

foreach (XmlNode xNode in ThisAddIn.XmlNodesModelStyles)
    if (xNode.Attributes["name"].Value == styleName)
    { node = xNode; break; }

it shows the Maching cast error. how to solve this.

What I have tried:

convert the code from foreach statement to linq

Posted 13-Jun-16 2:59am

smksamy

Updated 13-Jun-16 3:44am

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CHill60 13-Jun-16 9:06am

What is styleName declared as?

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-13T03:44:00

That Linq select doesn't return an XmlNode, it returns a IEnumerable<XmlNode> - so you can't just store it a in node variable.
Try adding .FirstOrDefault:

C#

XmlNode node = (from XmlNode x in ThisAddIn.XmlNodesModelStyles where styleName == x.Attributes["name"].Value select x).FirstOrDefault();