Question

I have a One-Many relation with two Entities :

Order:
int OrderId 
string OrderNumber
...

OrderItem:
int ItemId
int sequence
decimal Quantity
...

One Order Has multiple OrderItems, I want to write a Linq that return all orders with their items and items be sorted by sequence field.
How can i write a query such as following query?

Order myOrder = db.Orders.Include("OrderItems").Include("sequence").FirstOrDefault(x => x.OrderId == 3);

Answer 1

You can’t do that without projecting the results into a new type.

var myOrder= db.Orders.Include("OrderItems")
             .Where(x => x.OrderId == 3)  
             .Select(o => new {
                 order = o,
                 orderItems = o.OrderItems.OrderBy(i => i.sequence)
             }).FirstOrDefault();

// Usage
myOrder.order; // Order

myOrder.order.OrderItems; // OrderItems
myorder.orderItems;  // OrderItems alternative

Whilst it’s not ideal projecting it into a new object, according to this blog post, there is a nice side-effect that now order.OrderItems on your anonymous object will be sorted correctly too.