Question

Right now I have a static class called universe in my ASP.NET application. The universe holds planets and all sorts of other heavenly bodies. When the application starts I want the application to load up most of the database into memory so very few calls will need to be made to the database for the lifespan of the application.

Right now I have several lists inside the static class called universe and I am simply selecting all of the data from each table and throwing them into those Lists of their respective LINQ object. From there I expand upon the LINQ objects using partial classes. However I feel like there should be a better way doing this. Sorry in advance if this is a silly question.

public static List<ss_planets> planets = new List<ss_planets>();
public static List<ss_moons> moons = new List<ss_moons>();
public static void create_the_universe()
{
        ssDataContext db = new ssDataContext();

        var p = (from s in db.ss_planets select s);
        foreach (ss_planets pl in p)
        {
            planets.Add(pl);
        }

        var m = (from m in db.ss_moons select m);
        foreach (ss_moons mo in p)
        {
            moons.Add(mo);
        }
}

Answer 1

You could use LoadWith to retrieve all the tables you need into memory.