How to call Stored Procedure in Entity Framework 6 (Code-First)?

Question

I am very new to Entity Framework 6 and I want to implement stored procedures in my project. I have a stored procedure as follows:

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[ins         


        

Answer 1

I found that calling of Stored Procedures in Code First approach is not convenient. I prefer to use Dapper instead

The following code was written with Entity Framework:

var clientIdParameter = new SqlParameter("@ClientId", 4);

var result = context.Database
.SqlQuery<ResultForCampaign>("GetResultsForCampaign @ClientId", clientIdParameter)
.ToList();

The following code was written with Dapper:

return Database.Connection.Query<ResultForCampaign>(
            "GetResultsForCampaign ",
            new
            {
                ClientId = 4
            },
            commandType: CommandType.StoredProcedure);

I believe the second piece of code is simpler to understand.

Answer 2

Mindless passenger has a project that allows for multiple results sets to be returned from a stored proc using entity framework. One of his examples below....

using (testentities te = new testentities())
{
    //-------------------------------------------------------------
    // Simple stored proc
    //-------------------------------------------------------------
    var parms1 = new testone() { inparm = "abcd" };
    var results1 = te.CallStoredProc<testone>(te.testoneproc, parms1);
    var r1 = results1.ToList<TestOneResultSet>();
}

Answer 3

You can pass parameters to sp_GetById and fetch the results either in ToList() or FirstOrDefault();

var param  = new SqlParameter("@id", 106);
var result = dbContext
               .Database
               .SqlQuery<Category>("dbo.sp_GetById @id", param)
               .FirstOrDefault();

Answer 4

if you wanna pass table params into stored procedure, you must necessary set TypeName property for your table params.

SqlParameter codesParam = new SqlParameter(CODES_PARAM, SqlDbType.Structured);
            SqlParameter factoriesParam = new SqlParameter(FACTORIES_PARAM, SqlDbType.Structured);

            codesParam.Value = tbCodes;
            codesParam.TypeName = "[dbo].[MES_CodesType]";
            factoriesParam.Value = tbfactories;
            factoriesParam.TypeName = "[dbo].[MES_FactoriesType]";


            var list = _context.Database.SqlQuery<MESGoodsRemain>($"{SP_NAME} {CODES_PARAM}, {FACTORIES_PARAM}"
                , new SqlParameter[] {
                   codesParam,
                   factoriesParam
                }
                ).ToList();

Answer 5

You are using MapToStoredProcedures() which indicates that you are mapping your entities to stored procedures, when doing this you need to let go of the fact that there is a stored procedure and use the context as normal. Something like this (written into the browser so not tested)

using(MyContext context = new MyContext())
{
    Department department = new Department()
    {
        Name = txtDepartment.text.trim()
    };
    context.Set<Department>().Add(department);
}

If all you really trying to do is call a stored procedure directly then use SqlQuery

Answer 6

public IList<Models.StandardRecipeDetail> GetRequisitionDetailBySearchCriteria(Guid subGroupItemId, Guid groupItemId)
{
    var query = this.UnitOfWork.Context.Database.SqlQuery<Models.StandardRecipeDetail>("SP_GetRequisitionDetailBySearchCriteria @SubGroupItemId,@GroupItemId",
    new System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter("@SubGroupItemId", subGroupItemId),
    new System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter("@GroupItemId", groupItemId));
    return query.ToList();
}