Question

I am working on an asp.net mvc 3 web application , and i have the folloiwng model class inside my .tt folder:-

public partial class Patient
{
    public Patient()
    {
        this.Visits = new HashSet<Visit>();
    }

    public int PatientID { get; set; }
   //code goes here...
    public virtual Gender Gender { get; set; }
    **public virtual ICollection<Visit> Visits { get; set; }**

Then on the Controller class i wrote the following :-

public PartialViewResult ShowOther(int id, int skip, int take )
        {
                ViewBag.take = take;
                Patient patient = repository.GetPatient(id);
               **Visit visit = patient.Visits.OrderByDescending(d => d.Date).Skip(skip).Take(take).SingleOrDefault();**
//code goes here

So my question if wether the following Orderby patient.Visits.OrderByDescending(d => d.Date).Skip(skip).Take(take).SingleOrDefault(); be performed on the application level (which means that all the visits object will be retrived from the database and then the orderby will be done on the application level) OR the Orderby will be performed on the database and only the intended Visit object will be passed to the application?

My repository.GetPatient(id); method looks as follow:-

 public Patient GetPatient(int id)
        {
            return entities.Patients.FirstOrDefault(d => d.PatientID == id);        }

BR

Answer 1

Once you access patient.Visits lazy loading will load ALL visits to you application. Everything will be done in your application.

If you want to load only single visit you try this:

entities.ContextOptions.LazyLoadingEnabled = false;
var patient = entities.Patients.FirstOrDefault(d => d.PatientID == id);
var visit = ((EntityCollection<Visit>)patient.Visists).CreateSourceQuery()
                                                      .OrderByDescending(d => d.Date)
                                                      .SingleOrDefault();
                                                      .