How do you do a SQL style 'IN' statement in LINQ to Entities (Entity Framework) if Contains isn't supported?

Question

I\'m using LINQ to Entities (not LINQ to SQL) and I\'m having trouble creating an \'IN\' style query. Here is my query at the moment:

var items = db.InventoryIt         


        

Answer 1

My workaround is to convert the entities result to a List and after that apply the Contains().

Example:

var items = db.InventoryItem
                .Include("Kind")
                .Include("PropertyValues")
                .Include("PropertyValues.KindProperty")
                .ToList()
                .Where(itm => valueIds.Contains(itm.ID));