Question

I have a stored procedure that I’ve mapped in my entity framework model (trying to do my first one), and I’ve specified a function import. The stored procedure returns a data set as the result, which is mapped to a complex type in my function import. I’m using VS.NET 2010.

I think that I’ve done all of the typical stuff required, i.e. like http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb896231.aspx. There are no model errors either.

Is there anything else that I need to do in order to be able to call my function import? Has anyone else had a similar issue where they’ve created a function import that returns a complex type, yet it didn’t show up as a callable function from the ObjectContext? If not, is there anything that you may recommend I look into in order to further investigate?

Edit:
I’m just executing my stored procedures directly with the entity framework direct execution method, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee358758.aspx. The nice part is it still auto-maps to my complex types for me. Although I would love to use the function import approach…

Thanks

Answer 1

It will not show as method on ObjectContext but on derived generated class. If you are using ObjectContext directly you must call function import by using ExecuteFunction.