How to eagerly load a many to many relationship with the entity framework code first?

Question

I\'ll give the most basic example that I can think of for the purpose of clarity.

Lets say that I have two entities of the following form:

public cla         


        

Answer 1

You want an Include() query to indicate that you want to eagerly load the related Course entities:

var allStudents = context.Students.Include( s => s.Courses);

Also make sure you have a

using System.Data.Entity;

in your code file so you can use the strongly typed Include() extension method.