Question

I am working on an example asp.net project using MVC, but my database is a live one which I can’t make changes to (technically it’s the test version of this database but my point is changes to the database aren’t possible).

I use the UserID from the asp_Users table to store who makes changes to various aspects of the system, and I want to start showing the user name in various front-end tables, but how do I link the tables to get this user name?

So to clarify, I’m going to want to do this for several tables throughout the system so I was hoping I could do it using LINQ.

I can get the info I want from using the join query, but how do I pass this to my View to use?

        var plans = from users in db.aspnet_Users
                           join import in db.Plan_Imports
                           on users.UserId.ToString()
                           equals import.User_ID

                           select new
                           {
                               Date = import.Date,
                               UserName = users.UserName
                           };

Sample tables

asp_Users

UserID

UserName

…

table1

ID

field1

field2

…

User_ID <— ref to asp_Users

table2

ID

field1

field2

…

User_ID <— ref to asp_Users

Answer 1

The solution provided by Shyju worked perfectly, and it wasn’t too complex to do, however I decided that I didn’t think using LINQ was appropriate in this case as the code was getting out of hand for what should be a simple call.

What I did instead was use a stored procedure to get the information, and saved it to a complex object which I passed to my view.

The code is now much neater and easier to manage, as the code above became just

var plans = db.SP_SelectImports();  

Read more about stored procedure mapping here: http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/mapping-stored-procedure