Question

I have two tables Users and Companies:

public class User
{
    // Properties
    public long Id { get; set; }

    public string FirstName { get; set; }

    public string LastName { get; set; }

    public string Username { get; set; }

    public long AgencyId { get; set; }
    public Company Company { get; set; }

    // Custom Propreties
    [ScaffoldColumn(false)]
    public string FullName
    {
        get
        {
            return FirstName + " " + LastName;
        }
    }
}

public class Company
{
    public long Id { get; set; }

    public string Name { get; set; }

    public virtual ICollection<User> Users { get; set; }
}

The configuration is as so…

public class UserConfiguration : EntityTypeConfiguration<User>
{
    public UserConfiguration()
    {
        this.HasKey(x => x.Id);

        this.Property(x => x.Id);
        this.Property(x => x.FirstName).IsRequired();
        this.Property(x => x.LastName).IsRequired();
        this.Property(x => x.Username).IsRequired();
        this.Property(x => x.CompanyId).IsRequired();

        this.HasRequired(user => user.Company).WithMany().HasForeignKey(user => user.CompanyId);
    }
}

public class CompanyConfiguration : EntityTypeConfiguration<Company>
{
    public CompanyConfiguration()
    {
        this.ToTable("Companies");

        this.HasKey(x => x.Id);

        this.Property(x => x.Id);
        this.Property(x => x.Name).IsRequired();

        this.HasMany(company => company.Users).WithRequired().HasForeignKey(user => user.CompanyId);
    }
}

If I create a view with the Companies to show each company and make one column the Count of Users in the Company, then the View is rendered as expected showing the number of Users in each company. However, when I try to show each user in a View and show there Company.Name in a column, then it says that Company is null. Can someone explain if my one-to-one relationship is screwed up between User and Company?

************ EDIT ****************

    public UserConfiguration()
    {
        this.HasKey(x => x.Id);

        this.Property(x => x.Id);
        this.Property(x => x.FirstName).IsRequired();
        this.Property(x => x.LastName).IsRequired();
        this.Property(x => x.Username).IsRequired();
        this.Property(x => x.CompanyId).IsRequired();

        this.HasRequired(user => user.Company).WithMany().HasForeignKey(user => user.CompanyId);
        this.HasMany(user => user.AdministratorApplications)
            .WithMany(application => application.Administrators)
            .Map(map =>
            {
                map.ToTable("ApplicationAdministrators");
                map.MapLeftKey("ApplicationId");
                map.MapRightKey("UserId");
            });
    }

    public ApplicationConfiguration()
    {
        this.HasKey(x => x.Id);

        this.Property(x => x.Name).IsRequired();
        this.Property(x => x.Accronym).IsRequired();
        this.Property(x => x.Description);

        this.HasMany(application => application.Administrators)
            .WithMany(user => user.AdministratorApplications)
            .Map(map =>
            {
                map.ToTable("ApplicationAdministrators");
                map.MapLeftKey("UserId");
                map.MapRightKey("ApplicationId");
            });
    }

    public ApplicationAdministratorConfiguration()
    {
        this.ToTable("ApplicationAdministrators");

        this.HasKey(x => x.Id);

        this.Property(x => x.Id);
        this.Property(x => x.ApplicationId).IsRequired();
        this.Property(x => x.UserId).IsRequired();

        this.HasRequired(appAdmin => appAdmin.Application).WithMany().HasForeignKey(appAdmin => appAdmin.ApplicationId);
        this.HasRequired(appAdmin => appAdmin.User).WithMany().HasForeignKey(appAdmin => appAdmin.UserId);
    }

Here is the ApplicationAdministrator class

public class ApplicationAdministrator
{
    [Column("Id")]
    [DatabaseGenerated(DatabaseGeneratedOption.Identity)]
    [HiddenInput]
    public long Id { get; set; }

    [Display(Name = "Application")]
    public long ApplicationId { get; set; }
    public virtual Application Application { get; set; }

    [Display(Name = "Administrator")]
    public long UserId { get; set; }
    public virtual User User { get; set; }
}

And finally the error

Schema specified is not valid. Errors: (144,6) : error 0019: The
EntitySet ‘UserApplication’ with schema ‘dbo’ and table
‘ApplicationAdministrators’ was already defined. Each EntitySet must
refer to a unique schema and table.

Line 15: public IQueryable Users
Line 16: {
Line 17: get { return context.Users.Include(“AdministratorApplications”).Include(“Company”); }
Line 18: }
Line 19:

Answer 1

You need to make Company property virtual

public class User
{
    // Properties

    public virtual Company Company { get; set; }

}

If you don’t want to make it virtual you need tell EF to load Company property using the Include method.

By making the property virtual EF will lazy load the property. But f you are accessing Company property when you access user object then you can use Include method to eager load Company property.

var users = context.Users.Include(user => user.Company).Where(/*conditions*/);