Question

How can I get a list of all Entities Type generated from a Entity data model (*.edmx)?

I already have the names of the tables from the database and an instance of the model (.edmx).

I want to have an instance of Type of all the data entities.

let’s suppose my database have two tables:
Employee
EmployeeType

then the model will generate 2 classes and map the data. What I’m searching is a way to obtain a List(of Type).
In this case, the result list would countain an instance of Employee.GetType() and EmployeeType.getType()

Thanks!

(VS2010, VB.NET, EF4)

Answer 1

One of the ways to do it is:

((EdmItemCollection)ctx
    .MetadataWorkspace
    .GetItemCollection(DataSpace.CSpace))
    .GetItems<EntityType>()

I have not tried it before but you may be even able to get the items directly from the workspace:

ctx.MetadataWorkspace.GetItems<EntityType>(DataSpace.CSpace)

If you are using DbContext you can get ObjectContext as follows:

((IObjectContextAdapter)ctx).ObjectContext