Question

i want something like this :

public class Order
{
    public Guid OrderID { get; set; }
    public Guid UserId { get; set; }
    public DateTime OrderDate { get; set; }
    public decimal Amount { get; set; }

    public virtual ICollection<OrderDetail> orderDetailByOrderID { get; set; }
    public virtual MembershipUser userByOrderID { get; }
}

so from above code i want membership user to be access from Order object ….
however i tried it but its not working.

so please suggest some solution if you have come across this type situation

Answer 1

It sounds like you might be using Entity Framework Code First. If this is the case you’d probably want:

public virtual aspnet_Membership userByOrderID { get; set; }

instead of

public virtual MembershipUser userByOrderID { get; }

That would grab the aspnet_Membership entity that is tied to the UserId foreign key. The aspnet_Membership class is not quite the same as the MembershipUser entity, but they have many of the same properties.

If that won’t work, you can always use your Order model as is, and generate a ViewModel that has the MembershipUser object.

public class OrderViewModel
{
    public Order Order { get; set; }
    public MembershipUser User { get; set; }
}

and create the ViewModel like this before passing it into a view

Order order = EntityDataContext.Orders.First();
var model = new OrderViewModel { Order = order, User = Membership.GetUser(order.UserId) }