LanguageNormalizingExpressionVisitor for VB.NET string comparisons

Fixes #19592

src/EFCore/Query/Internal/LanguageNormalizingExpressionVisitor.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+// Copyright (c) .NET Foundation. All rights reserved.
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
+
+using System;
+using System.Linq.Expressions;
+using System.Reflection;
+
+namespace Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Query.Internal
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Normalizes certain language-specific aspects of the expression trees produced by languages other
+    /// than C#, e.g. Visual Basic.
+    /// </summary>
+    public class LanguageNormalizingExpressionVisitor : ExpressionVisitor
+    {
+        private static readonly MethodInfo _stringCompareMethod
+            = typeof(string).GetRuntimeMethod(
+                nameof(string.Compare),
+                new[] { typeof(string), typeof(string), typeof(StringComparison) });
+
+        protected override Expression VisitMethodCall(MethodCallExpression methodCallExpression)
+        {
+            var visited = (MethodCallExpression)base.VisitMethodCall(methodCallExpression);
+
+            // In VB.NET, comparison operators between strings (equality, greater-than, less-than) yield
+            // calls to a VB-specific CompareString method. Normalize that to string.Compare.
+            if (visited.Method.Name == "CompareString"
+                && visited.Method.DeclaringType?.Name == "Operators"
+                && visited.Method.DeclaringType?.Namespace == "Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices"
+                && visited.Object == null
+                && visited.Arguments.Count == 3
+                && visited.Arguments[2] is ConstantExpression textCompareConstantExpression)
+            {
+                return Expression.Call(
+                    _stringCompareMethod,
+                    visited.Arguments[0],
+                    visited.Arguments[1],
+                    (bool)textCompareConstantExpression.Value
+                        ? Expression.Constant(StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+                        : Expression.Constant(StringComparison.Ordinal));
+            }
+
+            return visited;
+        }
+
+        protected override Expression VisitBinary(BinaryExpression binaryExpression)
+        {
+            var visitedLeft = Visit(binaryExpression.Left);
+            var visitedRight = Visit(binaryExpression.Right);
+
+            // In VB.NET, str1 = str2 yields CompareString(str1, str2, false) == 0.
+            // Rewrite this is as a regular equality node.
+            if (binaryExpression.NodeType == ExpressionType.Equal
+                || binaryExpression.NodeType == ExpressionType.NotEqual)
+            {
+                var (compareStringExpression, otherExpression) =
+                    IsOrdinalStringCompare(visitedLeft)
+                        ? ((MethodCallExpression)visitedLeft, visitedRight)
+                        : IsOrdinalStringCompare(visitedRight)
+                            ? ((MethodCallExpression)visitedRight, visitedLeft)
+                            : (null, null);
+
+                if (compareStringExpression != null
+                    && otherExpression is ConstantExpression otherConstantExpression
+                    && (int)otherConstantExpression.Value == 0)
+                {
+                    return Expression.MakeBinary(
+                        binaryExpression.NodeType,
+                        compareStringExpression.Arguments[0],
+                        compareStringExpression.Arguments[1]);
+                }
+            }
+
+            return binaryExpression.Update(visitedLeft, binaryExpression.Conversion, visitedRight);
+
+            static bool IsOrdinalStringCompare(Expression expression)
+                => expression is MethodCallExpression methodCallExpression
+                    && methodCallExpression.Method == _stringCompareMethod
+                    && methodCallExpression.Arguments[2] is ConstantExpression stringComparisonConstantExpression
+                    && (StringComparison)stringComparisonConstantExpression.Value == StringComparison.Ordinal;
+        }
+    }
+}

src/EFCore/Query/QueryTranslationPreprocessor.cs

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ public virtual Expression Process([NotNull] Expression query)
             query = new EnumerableToQueryableMethodConvertingExpressionVisitor().Visit(query);
             query = new QueryMetadataExtractingExpressionVisitor(_queryCompilationContext).Visit(query);
             query = new InvocationExpressionRemovingExpressionVisitor().Visit(query);
+            query = new LanguageNormalizingExpressionVisitor().Visit(query);
             query = new AllAnyToContainsRewritingExpressionVisitor().Visit(query);
             query = new GroupJoinFlatteningExpressionVisitor().Visit(query);
             query = new NullCheckRemovingExpressionVisitor().Visit(query);