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Is it possible to use user-defined functions (UDFs) in Entity Framework? Would it be possible to use them through stored procedures and then add them to the model? As far as I know it’s only possible to use select stored procedures through Function Imports if they return an entity – correct me if I’m wrong 😉
It looks like you can – but it’s hardly documented 🙁
Here’s a blog post by the Queen of Entity Framework – Julia Lerman – describing how it can be done.
For EF4 with .NET 4.0 sometime in the future, MS plans to support UDF’s in Entity SQL – e.g. user-defined functions in the EF model – check this out. But that’s only going to be available once the .NET 4.0 framework and EFv4 is out.
Marc