Question

I have 2 tables:

User(Id PK, TitleId FK, Name, Active)

Title(Id PK, Text)

Table Title is a lookup table of titles (Mr, Miss,…) and its got a relationship with table User by TitleId.

Now I’m trying to display the data in a web page using .net and Entity Framework. I’m using a ListView control and a query as a source. it all displays fine except for the Title.

Here is my code:

    MyEntities _entities = new MyEntities ();

    User user = new User(_entities);
    IQueryable u = (from x in _entities.Users
           where x.Active == true
           select x);

    ListView1.DataSource = u;
    ListView1.DataBind();

and the code in the front end:

<asp:ListView ID="ListView1" runat="server" 
    EnableModelValidation="True" DataKeyNames="Id">

<ItemTemplate>
    <tr>
        <td>
            <%# Eval("Id") %>
        </td>
        <td>
            <%# Eval("Title.Text") %>
        </td>

        <td>
            <%# Eval("Name") %>
        </td>
     </tr>
</ItemTemplate>
<LayoutTemplate>
                 <table ID="itemPlaceholderContainer" runat="server">
                    <tr runat="server">
                        <th id="Th2" runat="server">
                            Id</th>
                        <th id="Th1" runat="server">
                            Title</th>
                        <th id="Th3" runat="server">
                            Name</th>
                        <th runat="server">
                    </tr>
                    <tr runat="server" ID="itemPlaceholder">
                    </tr>
                </table>

</LayoutTemplate>

How do I manage to get the Title Text associated with a User to display on the ListView?

Answer 1

I just figured out how to do it:

_entities.Users.Include(“Title”)