I need help resolving an error... and may need an advice for a better implementation. I'm still trying to grasp the LINQ concept so I am stumbling along the way. Basically I just tried querying the aspnet_Users and aspnet_Membership tables and displaying the values to a view (not strongly typed) This is a working test code From HomeController ------------ var test = new TestEntities(); ViewBag.UserIds = ( from m in test.AspnetUsers orderby m.UserId ascending select m ); return View(); From Home View ----------------- <ul> @{ foreach (var x in ViewBag.UserIds) { <li>ID: @x.UserId</li> } } </ul> But this one gives me an error: {"'System.Guid' does not contain a definition for 'UserId'"}. I'm still using the above View for this. var test = new TestEntities(); ViewBag.UserIds = ( from m in test.AspnetUsers orderby m.UserId ascending select m.UserId ); And this code too (since it's related above). var test = new TestEntities(); ViewBag.UserIds = ( from m in test.AspnetUsers join n in test.AspnetMemberships on m.UserId equals n.UserId orderby m.UserId ascending select new { m.UserId, n.Email, n.CreateDate } ); How can I resolve this error? Is there a better way of passing the result of a database query to a view which is not strongly-typed?