Entity Framework .Include() with compile time checking?

Question

Consider the following code, which is calling against an EF generated data context:

var context = new DataContext();
var employees = context.Employees.Includ         


        

Answer 1

In case you're still using versions prior to Entity Framework 5, the good news is as of C# 6, you can now use nameof to retrieve name of any class/object.

So now you may do

var context = new DataContext();
var employees = context.Employees.Include(nameof(Employees.Department));

If you're using EF > 5, then Xavier's answer is better