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breakerdotnet
breakerdotnet

Reputation: 93

Entity Framework method to return entities as a property

Hi my first question here so forgive me if its not asked in the correct manner. I'm new to the entity framework and have a database first model.edmx file setup. What I would like to know is if there is a way to setup a property on an entity that returns a method: eg.I have a Customer entity with various properties. Using Linq I could do something like context.Customers.ToList(); to return all the customers. How could I create a property/method that would look like this context.Customers.getAll(); I could then create others like context.Customers.getVIP(); with cetain conditions.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 442

Answers (2)

bazz
bazz

Reputation: 613

The answer provided above is the proper and the right way to do it. But, if for any reason you want to do it the other way, you can have a partial class for your data context

public partial class EntityContext
{
    public List<Plant> GetAllCusomters()
    {
        return Customers.ToList();
    }

}

A word of warning though, this is by no means a proper way to do it and certainly not the recommended approach.

Upvotes: 1

Olrac
Olrac

Reputation: 1537

You need a class that having all logics of an entity...

This link will help you - Implementing Repository Pattern With Entity Framework

Upvotes: 4

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