Join navigation property with line

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Join navigation property with line

c# dapper linq

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I try to join a navigation property by using LINQ. This is my code

    var activities = Using<GetActivitiesForUser>()
        .Execute(User.DisplayAs, User.MarketId);

    var contacts = Using<GetContactsForUser>()
        .Execute(User.DisplayAs, User.MarketId);

    var model = from activity in activities
                join contact in contacts
                on activity.ContactId equals contact.ContactId
                select activity;

This code will only select the activity without any join. The activity has a property named Contact, and i want to join that property from Contacts.

UPDATE

Example to solve it

foreach(var activity in activities)
{
activity = from contact in contacts
where contact.ContactId=activity.ContactId
select contact
}

But i want to do this with a join.

Nils Anders

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It looks like you are using the Entity Framework

try

var model = activities.Include("Contact");

Aducci

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Gert Arnold · Accepted Answer · 3/24/2013 11:05:05 AM

You must include both activities and contacts in the query result:

from activity in activities
join contact in contacts
on activity.ContactId equals contact.ContactId
select new { activity, contact };

or select individual properties of both objects.

Edit After your comment:

You won't be able to let Dapper populate activity.contact, it is deliberately kept simple. What you can do is loop through the results and set the property yourself:

foreach(var anon in model)
{
    anon.activity.contact = anon.contact;
}

where model is the query .ToList().

Another effective, but ugly way could be:

model.Select(x => { x.activity.contact = x.contact; return activity; }).ToList();

Which immediately returns the modified activities. It is ugly because it abuses a method that is intended to be stateless (Select), but yeah...

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