Sequence contains more than one element

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" (of type InvalidOperationException). 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();   
}

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.

SingleOrDefault method throws an Exception if there is more than one element in the sequence.

Apparently, your query in GetCustomer is finding more than one match. So you will either need to refine your query or, most likely, check your data to see why you're getting multiple results for a given customer number.

Use FirstOrDefault insted of SingleOrDefault..

SingleOrDefault returns a SINGLE element or null if no element is found. If 2 elements are found in your Enumerable then it throws the exception you are seeing

FirstOrDefault returns the FIRST element it finds or null if no element is found. so if there are 2 elements that match your predicate the second one is ignored

   public int GetPackage(int id,int emp)
           {
             int getpackages=Convert.ToInt32(EmployerSubscriptionPackage.GetAllData().Where(x
   => x.SubscriptionPackageID ==`enter code here` id && x.EmployerID==emp ).FirstOrDefault().ID);
               return getpackages;
           }

 1. var EmployerId = Convert.ToInt32(Session["EmployerId"]);
               var getpackage = GetPackage(employerSubscription.ID, EmployerId);

FYI you can also get this error if EF Migrations tries to run with no Db configured, for example in a Test Project.

Chased this for hours before I figured out that it was erroring on a query, but, not because of the query but because it was when Migrations kicked in to try to create the Db.

As @Mehmet is pointing out, if your result is returning more then 1 elerment then you need to look into you data as i suspect that its not by design that you have customers sharing a customernumber.

But to the point i wanted to give you a quick overview.

//success on 0 or 1 in the list, returns dafault() of whats in the list if 0
list.SingleOrDefault();
//success on 1 and only 1 in the list
list.Single();

//success on 0-n, returns first element in the list or default() if 0 
list.FirstOrDefault();
//success 1-n, returns the first element in the list
list.First();

//success on 0-n, returns first element in the list or default() if 0 
list.LastOrDefault();
//success 1-n, returns the last element in the list
list.Last();

for more Linq expressions have a look at System.Linq.Expressions