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Nouman Bhatti
Nouman Bhatti

Reputation: 1421

Getting data from foreign key table using LINQ

I've 2 tables

DeviceType Table 

id   Name 
1    Device Type 1
2    Device Type 2

Device Table

id   Name     Device Type Id (fk)
1    Device1  1
2    Device2  1
3    Device3  2

What I want is to query the data from device table with device type name using LINQ Methods. I couldn't find the Include method to use here.

I'm trying to get this in result

id Name     DeviceType Name
1  Device1  Device Type 1
2  Device2  Device Type 1
3  Device3  Device Type 2

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3050

Answers (3)

Rokive
Rokive

Reputation: 825

List<DeviceType> deviceTypeList = new List<DeviceType>() { 
            new DeviceType { id = 1, Name = "Device Type 1" }, 
            new DeviceType { id = 2, Name = "Device Type 2" } };

List<Device> deviceList = new List<Device>() { 
            new Device { id = 1, Name = "Device1", DeviceTypeId = 1 },
            new Device { id = 2, Name = "Device2", DeviceTypeId = 1 },
            new Device { id = 3, Name = "Device3", DeviceTypeId = 2 } };

//Linq
var query = from device in deviceList
        join type in deviceTypeList
        on device.DeviceTypeId equals type.id
        select new { Id = device.id, Name = device.Name,
        DeviceTypeName = type.Name };


//Or lambda expressions
var query = deviceList.Join(deviceTypeList,
        device => device.DeviceTypeId,
        type => type.id,
        (device, type) => new { Id = device.id, Name = device.Name, 
        DeviceTypeName = type.Name });

Upvotes: 0

user8507737
user8507737

Reputation: 

var device = from g in db.Devices
        join m in db.DeviceType on g.DeviceTypeId equals m.Id  
        select new 
        {
          Id = g.Id,
          Name = g.Name,
          DeviceTypeName = m.Name
        };

Or you can try something like

var device = db.Devices
             .Join(db.DeviceType,
                 g => g.Id,      // Device Table Id 
                 m => m.Id,      // DeviceType Table Id
                 (g, m) => new { 
                               Id = g.Id, 
                               Name = g.Name, 
                               DeviceTypeName = m.Name 
              }) 
             .Where(deviceTyp => deviceTyp.g.ID == Id);     
             // where condition for g.DeviceTypeId equals m.Id

Upvotes: 2

AD.Net
AD.Net

Reputation: 13409

You do not need to use .Include unless you want to get the related entities as well. You can do something like this:

context.Devices.Where(your conditions here)
      .Select(d=>new {Id = d.id, Name = d.Name, DeviceTypeName = d.DeviceType.Name})

You do not need to do join since there's a FK relationship (looks like that from the question), EF should pick up the relationship

Upvotes: 1

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