Linq to Entities many to many select query

Question

I am at a loss with the following query, which is peanuts in plain T-SQL.

We have three physical tables:

• Band (PK=BandId)
• MusicStyle (PK=Muic

Answer 1

This proved to be much simpler than it seemed. I've solved the problem using the following blogpost: http://weblogs.asp.net/salimfayad/archive/2008/07/09/linq-to-entities-join-queries.aspx

The key to this solution is to apply the filter of the bandname on a subset of Bands of the musicstyle collection.

var result=(from m in _entities.MusicStyle 
            from b in m.Band
            where b.Name.Contains(search)
            select new {
                BandName = b.Name,
                m.ID,
                m.Name,
                m.Description
            });

notice the line

from b IN m.Band

This makes sure you are only filtering on bands that have a musicstyle.

Thanks for your answers but none of them actually solved my problem.