Entity Framework - eager loading of related entities

Question

Sorry the title isn\'t more specific - I didn\'t know how to describe this succinctly. I have Trips and Location that have a many-to-many relationship - straightforward except t

Answer 1

Regarding the lambda expression, you can use context.Set like @tyron said or you can use context.Trips. For example:

IQueryable query = from ride in context.Trips
                             .Include(t=>t.TripLocations.Select(l=>l.Location))                                     
                         select ride;

In order to make this code work, you need to define a property of type DbSet in your DbContext class like below:

public DbSet Trips { get; set; }

Defining a property that returns DbSet is nice but at the same time it's equivalent to accesing context.Set. It's just a code style that could also be combined.