Does the ADO.NET Entity Framework have a construct similar to LINQ to SQL GetTable <T>?
Does ADO.NET Entity Framework have a construct similar to LINQ to SQL GetTable?
I am trying to do something similar in Entity Framework, which I am very used to doing in LINQ to SQL . ADO.NET Entity Framework has the same capability?
LINQ to SQL:
dataContext.GetTable<T>();
This will result in a Queryable of type "T".
In Entity Framework, I would like to do the same:
//NOTICE: This is a partial extension of the auto-generated Entities-model
// created by the designer.
public partial class Entities : IEntities
{
public IQueryable<T> FindAll<T>()
{
//pseudo-code
// return from all entities, the entities that are of type T as Queryable
}
}
Since I couldn't figure it out, I did what I find to be a "smelly" workaround:
//NOTICE: This is a partial extension of the auto-generated Entities-model
// created by the designer.
public partial class Entities : IEntities
{
public IQueryable<Users> FindAllUsersQueryable
{
get { return Users; }
}
public IQueryable<Registrations> FindAllRegistrationsQueryable
{
get { return Registrations; }
}
//... and so on ...
}
What I want is similar to:
//NOTICE: This is a partial extension of the auto-generated Entities-model
// created by the designer.
public partial class Entities : IEntities
{
public IQueryable<T> FindAll<T>()
{
return GetEntities<T>();
}
}
But so far I haven't been able to find out how to do it.
What solution?
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Marking like a wiki as I can't claim credit, but MSFT's answer to this question is here: What is the equivilant of GetTable in L2E .
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