Question

I want to access the data of table using WCF services.

My code is like:

The table name is marital_status and have relations with other tables.

    [OperationContract] 
    marital_status[] GetMartialStatus();

    public marital_status[] GetMartialStatus()
    {
        using (HREntities context = new HREntities())
        {
            marital_status[] obj = context.marital_status.ToArray();

            return obj;
        }
    }

When i try to use this:

  List<marital_status> asd =   EntityService.ServiceInstance.GetMartialStatus().ToList();

I got the error that context is no longer available.

I am using array then there should not be any problem.

PLEASE NOTE: I dont want to create DATA CONTRACTS etc. Because Linq to Entities already expose the classes for the tables.

Any help is appreciated

UPDATE:

If i explicitly remove LAZY LOADING = false in the code my code starts working. But i do not want to remove this

Answer 1

Are there any relations between marital_status and other entities?
Maybe you should include them in the result or explicitly load them?

marital_status[] obj = context.marital_status.Include("other_relation").ToArray();

or

foreach(var ob in obj)
    ob.Load(relation);

If you modify data, you may also want to try context.marital_status.MergeOption(MergeOption.NoTracking);

Btw, your method is named Martial and relation is Marital 😉