Can SQL level functions be made available to LINQ to Entity queries?

Question

I wish I could write LINQ to Entity queries that called other functions:

from c in context.Widgets
where MyFunc(c.name)
select c

That causes an

Answer 1

You should create a user-defined function MyFunc in the database and "import" it manually into your context (edmx, so database first), both in the XML and as a stub in a partial class off the context class. The procedure is described here:

How to use a custom database function (Note that "StorageNamespace" is the namespace that you find in the XML file under .

MSDN has a similar description.