Have you looked at the Include method? Thanks Clint Colefax
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of anthonyatsmall...@mail.com Sent: Thursday, 8 May 2014 12:30 AM To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: MVC Model populating from EF5 Trying to populate a viewmodel from ef ..i can populate the model from ef with no issue but how do I populate the related objects? I'm sure it easy solution! IssueTracker_Issues is the database table from EF IssueTracker_IssuesTypes is the database table related to field IssueTypeId from IssueTracker_Issues namespace SIMIt.Models { public class IssueViewModel { public IEnumerable<IssueViewModel> GetIssues() { var db = new SBHUBDBContext(); //This populates IssueViewModel but want to also populate the related model\tables IEnumerable<IssueViewModel> albums = db.IssueTracker_Issues.Take(5).ToList().Select(a => new IssueViewModel { IssueId = a.IssueId, IssueTitle = a.IssueTitle, IssueStatusId = a.IssueStatusId, IssueTypeId = a.IssueTypeId, IssueMemberID = a.IssueStatusId, IssueComments = a.IssueComments, IssuePriorityId = a.IssuePriorityId }); return albums; } public IssueViewModel() { } public int IssueId { get; set; } public string IssueTitle { get; set; } public int IssueCategoryId { get; set; } public int IssuePriorityId { get; set; } public int IssueStatusId { get; set; } public int IssueCreatorId { get; set; } public int IssueOwnerId { get; set; } public IssueTypeViewModel IssueType { get; set; } //relation } } public class IssueTypeViewModel { public int IssueTypeId { get; set; } public string IssueType { get; set; } } Anthony Salerno | Founder | SmallBiz Australia Innovation | Web | Software | Developers | Support Phone : +613 8400 4191 Email : 2Anthony (at) smallbiz.com.au Postal : Po Box 135, Lower Plenty 3093 ABN : 16 079 706 737 Website : www.smallbiz.com.au<http://www.smallbiz.com.au/>
