Entity framework calling a FOR XML stored procedure truncates at 2033 characters

Question

I have a stored procedure which uses a FOR XML statement at the end of it, and returns me some XML.

I am using .NET 4 and the Entity Framework and when I do a functi

Answer 1

I upvoted Fermin's answer. Response to Dementic (and anyone else), here is a code fragment.

From this:

using (var db = new MyEntities())
{
    IEnumerable<string> results = db.GetSomeXML(ProductCode);
    return results.FirstOrDefault();           
}

To this:

using System.Text;      //For the StringBuilder

using (var db = new MyEntities())
{
    StringBuilder retval = new StringBuilder();

    IEnumerable<string> results = db.GetSomeXML(ProductCode);
    foreach (var result in results)
        retval.Append(result);

    return retval.ToString();           
}

Answer 2

I ran into the same issue today.

The EF function call returns the XML in 2033-long string 'chunks' (e.g. if your XML was 5000 chars long you would receive 3 results: 2 of 2033 chars and 1 of 934 chars)

You can easily append these chunks to return a full list of the XML.