Question

I get an entity list by following:

var riscregions = db.RiscEntranceDetails.OrderBy(r => r.RiscEntranceID).Include(r => r.RiscEntrance).Include(r => r.RiscRegion);

However, I need to reach more deeply related entities attributes, such as:

<td>@item.RiscEntrance.ID</td>
<td>@item.RiscEntrance.Personnel.Name</td>
<td>@item.RiscEntrance.EntranceDateTime</td>
<td>@item.RiscEntrance.ShiftWork.ShiftGroup.TextID</td>

How can I reach those? Any suggestions including linq, or some other workarounds such as extensions and helpers are greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You can do this:

var riscregions = db.RiscEntranceDetails
                .OrderBy(r => r.RiscEntranceID)
                .Include(r => r.RiscEntrance)
                .Include(r => r.RiscEntrance.Personnel)
                .Include(r => r.RiscEntrance.ShiftWork.ShiftGroup)

You need to use Select in your Include expression only if you need to select children of a collection.