Stored procedure returns int instead of result set

Question

I have a stored procedure that contains dynamic select. Something like this:

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[usp_GetTestRecords] 
    --@p1 int = 0, 
    --@p2 int =          


        

Answer 1

If you need to do this, then you might be better off just making a partial of the dbcontext and creating the C# function yourself that will use SqlQuery to return the data you need. Advantages over some of the other options is:

1. Don't have to change anything when the model updates
2. Won't get overwritten if you do it directly in the generated class (someone above mention this as if it's an option :) )
3. Don't have to add anything to the proc itself that could have side effects now or later on

Example Code:

 public partial class myEntities
    {
       public List usp_GetTestRecords(int _p1, int _p2, string _groupId)
       {
          // fill out params
          SqlParameter p1 = new SqlParameter("@p1", _p1);
          ...
          obj[] parameters = new object[] { p1, p2, groupId };

          // call the proc
          return this.Database.SqlQuery(@"EXECUTE usp_GetTestRecords @p1, @p2, @groupId", parameters).ToList();
       }
    }