Entity Framework - Eager loading related entities

Question

I\'m using Entity Framework 4 with MVC and need to ensure any referenced entities I want to use in my view have been loaded before the controller method returns, otherwise the v

Answer 1

I'm in the same situation. I think that with EF is very easy to fall in a 101 query problem.

A solution can be to create a partial class of your Seller class (generated by EF) and implement a GetSubclassNameQ that return a IQueryable, and a GetSubclassNameQFull that return a IQueryable with eager loading.

public partial class Seller{

  public IQueryable GetRecommendationsQ(EntityContainer entitycontainer) {
    return entitycontainer.Recommendations;
  }      

  public IQueryable GetRecommendationsQFull(EntityContainer entitycontainer) {
    return this.GetRecommendationsQ(entitycontainer).Include("Recommendations.User");
  }

  public IQueryable GetRecommendationsQ() {
    return GetRecommendationsQ(new EntityContainer());
  }

  public IQueryable GetRecommendationsQFull() {
    return this.GetRecommendationsQ().Include("Recommendations.User");
  }

}