SelectQuery.FilterString Property

Specifies the criteria used to filter data returned by the current SelectQuery.

Namespace: DevExpress.DataAccess.Sql

Assembly: DevExpress.DataAccess.v24.2.dll

Declaration

C#

[DefaultValue(null)]
[LocalizableCategory(DataAccessStringId.QueryPropertyGridTableSelectionCategoryName)]
public string FilterString { get; set; }

VB.NET

<DefaultValue(Nothing)>
<LocalizableCategory(DataAccessStringId.QueryPropertyGridTableSelectionCategoryName)>
Public Property FilterString As String

Property Value

Type	Default	Description
String	null	A String value, specifying the filter criteria.

Remarks

The FilterString property allows you to filter the result set returned by SelectQuery by specifying the required filter criteria. To filter a SelectQuery by specified column values, precede a column name with a corresponding table name. For instance, you can filter the SalesPerson table by the Beverages category in the following way.

C#

SelectQuery query = new SelectQuery("Query 1");
query.AddTable("SalesPerson").SelectColumns("CategoryName", "Extended Price");
query.FilterString = "[SalesPerson].[CategoryName] = 'Beverages'";

VB.NET

Dim query As New SelectQuery("Query 1")
query.AddTable("SalesPerson").SelectColumns("CategoryName", "Extended Price")
query.FilterString = "[SalesPerson].[CategoryName] = 'Beverages'"

To pass a QueryParameter (which can be accessed using the SqlQuery.Parameters property) to the filter string, precede the parameter name with the ? sign.

C#

//...
QueryParameter queryParam1 = new QueryParameter("Parameter1", typeof(string), "Beverages");
query.Parameters.Add(queryParam1);
query.FilterString = "[SalesPerson].[CategoryName] = ?Parameter1";

VB.NET

'...
Dim queryParam1 As New QueryParameter("Parameter1", GetType(String), "Beverages")
query.Parameters.Add(queryParam1)
query.FilterString = "[SalesPerson].[CategoryName] = ?Parameter1"

Note

If a table or column name includes dots, enclose the table/column name in square brackets.

For example, if you have a table with the “table.name” name and a column with the “column.name” name, refer to the column in the following manner: [[table.name\].[column.name\]]. If you have only the column name with a dot, refer to it as follows: [tablename.[column.name\]]. As you can see, you should use \ to avoid closing the expression beforehand.

To learn more about building filter criteria, see Simplified Criteria Syntax.

Related GitHub Examples

The following code snippets (auto-collected from DevExpress Examples) contain references to the FilterString property.

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C#

reporting-winforms-filter-report-data-query/CS/QueryParametersRuntime/XtraReport1.cs#L39

query.Parameters.Add(parameter);
query.FilterString = "CategoryID = ?catID";

data-access-library-create-data-sources-at-runtime/CS/SqlDataSourceSnippets/Code.cs#L56

    query.Parameters.Add(parameter);
    query.FilterString = "CategoryID = ?catID";
}

VB.NET

reporting-winforms-filter-report-data-query/VB/QueryParametersRuntime/XtraReport1.vb#L37

query.Parameters.Add(parameter)
query.FilterString = "CategoryID = ?catID"

data-access-library-create-data-sources-at-runtime/VB/SqlDataSourceSnippets/Code.vb#L37

    query.Parameters.Add(parameter)
    query.FilterString = "CategoryID = ?catID"
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