How to query Code First entities based on rowversion/timestamp value?

Question

I\'ve run into a case where something that worked fairly well with LINQ to SQL seems to be very obtuse (or maybe impossible) with the Entity Framework. Specifically, I\'ve g

Answer 1

I found this workaround usefull:

byte[] rowversion = BitConverter.GetBytes(revision);

var dbset = (DbSet)context.Set();

string query = dbset.Where(x => x.Revision != rowversion).ToString()
    .Replace("[Revision] <> @p__linq__0", "[Revision] > @rowversion");

return dbset.SqlQuery(query, new SqlParameter("rowversion", rowversion)).ToArray();