How to order child collections of entities in EF

Question

I have the following query:

public IEnumerable GetAllTeamsWithMembers(int ownerUserId)
        {
            return _ctx.Teams
                 .         


        

Answer 1

You could dump your teams and their team members into an anonymous type (probably not what you want), like this:

public IEnumerable GetAllTeamsWithMembers(int ownerUserId)
{
    return (from t in _ctx.Teams
        where t.UserId == ownerUserId
        select new {
            Team = t,
            TeamMembers = t.TeamMembers.OrderBy(m => m.Name)
        }).ToList()
}

You can then loop through them:

foreach(Team team in GetAllTeamsWithMembers(1234))
{
    string teamName = team.Team.Name;
    string firstTeamMemberName = team.TeamMembers.First().Name;
}

Update: For the record, my opinion is to not use this solution, but to sort each collection in a loop or during rendering/binding.

I removed the 2nd solution, since it was pointed out that EF cannot select into entities.