Sequence contains more than one element

Question

I'm having some issues with grabbing a list of type "RhsTruck" through Linq and getting them to display.

RhsTruck just has properites Make, Model, Serial etc... RhsCustomer has properties CustomerName, CustomerAddress, etc...

I keep getting the error "Sequence contains more than one element". Any ideas? Am I approaching this the wrong way?

public RhsCustomer GetCustomer(string customerNumber)
{
    using (RhsEbsDataContext context = new RhsEbsDataContext() )
    {
        RhsCustomer rc = (from x in context.custmasts
                          where x.kcustnum == customerNumber
                          select new RhsCustomer()
                        {
                            CustomerName = x.custname,
                            CustomerAddress = x.custadd + ", " + x.custcity
                            CustomerPhone = x.custphone,
                            CustomerFax = x.custfax
                        }).SingleOrDefault();
        return rc;
    }
}

public List<RhsTruck> GetEquipmentOwned(RhsCustomer cust)
{
    using (RhsEbsDataContext context = new RhsEbsDataContext())
    {
        var trucks = (from m in context.mkpops
                      join c in context.custmasts
                        on m.kcustnum equals c.kcustnum
                      where m.kcustnum == cust.CustomerNumber
                      select new RhsTruck
                    {
                        Make = m.kmfg,
                        Model = m.kmodel,
                        Serial = m.kserialnum,
                        EquipID = m.kserialno1,
                        IsRental = false
                    }).ToList();
        return trucks;
    }
}

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    string testCustNum = Page.Request.QueryString["custnum"].ToString();

    RhsCustomerRepository rcrep = new RhsCustomerRepository();
    RhsCustomer rc = rcrep.GetCustomer(testCustNum);
    List<RhsTruck> trucks = rcrep.GetEquipmentOwned(rc);

    // I want to display the List into a Gridview w/auto-generated columns
    GridViewTrucks.DataSource = trucks;
    GridViewTrucks.DataBind();   
}

Answer 1

The problem is that you are using SingleOrDefault. This method will only succeed when the collections contains exactly 0 or 1 element. I believe you are looking for FirstOrDefault which will succeed no matter how many elements are in the collection.