How to include a child object's child object in Entity Framework 5

Question

I am using Entity Framework 5 code first and ASP.NET MVC 3.

I am struggling to get a child object\'s child object to populate. Below are m

Answer 1

If you include the library System.Data.Entity you can use an overload of the Include() method which takes a lambda expression instead of a string. You can then Select() over children with Linq expressions rather than string paths.

return DatabaseContext.Applications
     .Include(a => a.Children.Select(c => c.ChildRelationshipType));