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js_vistadb
#1 Posted : Wednesday, June 17, 2009 12:16:16 PM
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I came across this blog post about a strongly typed include for EF.

That has been a sore point for me with Entity Framework.

If you have an object (Orders) and you always want to load all the children (OrderDetails) you have to do a really ugly .Include("OrderDetails"smile string! What happens if you misspell it? You get a lovely RUNTIME exception. I find it hard to believe MS missed this one. I hope it is fixed in the next EF release.

I have not tried the code in the post to see if it works. But it would be nice.
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Ron Grove
#2 Posted : Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:30:51 AM
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These strings are also a problem during refactoring. I've run into it with another vendors OPF believe it or not. I suppose if I didn't refactor so much it wouldn't be a problem. But I always seem to come up with "better" names as I go so I pretty much dropped it. A refactoring tool is a lot less productive when you still have to run a find in all files command after the refactoring to figure out where all those loose strings you missed are...

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#3 Posted : Tuesday, June 23, 2009 6:47:34 AM
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One word CONSTANTS
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#4 Posted : Tuesday, June 23, 2009 11:02:06 AM
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Yea, why didn't the EF code generator put constants in the namespace. That would let you do an include with .Table.Includes( Othertable.Name ) and it would always be the correct string. I guess you could do it yourself with extension methods.

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