EdmFunctions.Year Method (DbExpression)

 

Creates a DbFunctionExpression that invokes the canonical 'Year' function with the specified argument, which must have a DateTime or DateTimeOffset result type. The result type of the expression is Edm.Int32.

Namespace:   System.Data.Entity.Core.Common.CommandTrees.ExpressionBuilder
Assembly:  EntityFramework (in EntityFramework.dll)

public static DbFunctionExpression Year(
	this DbExpression dateValue
)

Parameters

dateValue
Type: System.Data.Entity.Core.Common.CommandTrees.DbExpression

An expression that specifies the value from which the year should be retrieved.

Return Value

Type: System.Data.Entity.Core.Common.CommandTrees.DbFunctionExpression

A new DbFunctionExpression that returns the integer year value from dateValue.

Exception Condition
ArgumentNullException

dateValue is null.

ArgumentException

No overload of the canonical 'Year' function accepts an argument with the result type of dateValue.