Need small help in LINQ

[Hari krishna]

I'm facing one issue in LINQ

string  filter ="MediCare";  //dynamic(not constant)
var data = GetInsurancePlanList(InsurancefacilityId);

here i'm getting the result

Now i'm trying to filter the result using the string name called filter.

grdInsurancePlans.DataSource = data.Where(p => p.PlanCode.Contains(filter.ToUpper()) || p.PlanType.Tostring().Contains(filter.ToUpper()));

grdInsurancePlans.Rebind();

I able filter the records using "PlanCode" property because "plancode" is a string anyway

My qusetion here is,

I not able filter the records using "PlanType"."PlanType" is an enum.....eventhought i converted to string like above,i couldn't get the results

If i'm worng in doing convertion,can u give a solution?

[Thomas]

This is due to the fact that the database server does not know the string names for the enumeration values, but rather does a '1' or '2' (numeric->string) where you expected the string 'PlanTypeA' or 'PlanTypeB' beeing used.
We do here the translation INT -> VARCHAR on the server, not the Enum->String.

Greetings,
Thomas
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