Question

I have two simple entities with one-to-many relationship:

public class Customer
{
    public int Id { get; private set; }
    public IList<Order> Orders { get; private set; }
}

public class Order
{
    public DateTime Date { get; set; }
}

Let’s imagine, that there could be a lot of Orders for a particular Customer, and I want to see only last-month-orders.

Can I do this somehow if Orders property is lazy-loaded?
I want something like:

var orders = customer.Orders.Where(x => x.Date > DateTime.Now.AddMonths(-1)).ToList();

but now nHibernate requests all the Orders on this line (SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE customerId='{0}'), and linq-restrictions are applied on the loaded data, but I want it to be applied to SQL (SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE customerId='{0}' AND date > '2011-07-31').

Is this achievable with nHibernate? Can Entity Framework do this?

Answer 1

Is this achievable with nHibernate? Can Entity Framework do this?

Unfortunately no. NHibernate and EF cannot handle this situation.