Question

I have an entity in my EDMX that I’ve extended with a few fields in a partial class like this:

public partial class Employee
{ 
     public string JobName {get;set;} 
} 

These properties are for display only. In the above example say the entity has a JobTypeID property. I wish JobName to be populated w/ the name that belongs to that JobTypeID.

Is there anyway to query the employee record in EF including the value for the JobName property w/o explicity assigning each field using select()?

The reason I ask is that there are a lot of fields in the Employee entity so I’d like to be able to take advantage of something like:

ctx.Employees.Where(e=>e.EmployeeID==employeeID).Single()

…add somehow fill in JobName too

Is this possible?

Answer 1

How about: public string JobName { get { return this.JobType.Name; } }?