EF Core no .Include() method on DBset

Question

I\'m currently completely unable to call .Include() and intellisense (in vscode) doesn\'t seem to think it exists.

Now after a long time searching the web I\'ve found th

Answer 1

It's a direct consequence of a missing reference in the file where I'm making a call to the method (though i'm not quite sure i understand how...)

Anyways, adding:

using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;

like Tseng and Smit suggested, did the trick. (in the file in which i define the function)

Though why that works i have no idea. I thought .include would automatically be available through the DbSet.

Thanks though! :)

Answer 2

If you end up here, a user of EF 6 or below and happen to miss that OP actually mentioned this like I did, you want to add

using System.Data.Entity;

to your class.

Answer 3

Here is a previous answer that is tracking this issue in EF7. It appears it is now 'included'.