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How does Entity Framework work with recursive hierarchies? Include() seems not to work with it

Asked 2009-08-20T18:57:54.643
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I have an Item. Item has a Category.

Category has ID, Name, Parent and Children. Parent and Children are of Category too.

When I do a LINQ to Entities query for a specific Item, it doesn't return the related Category, unless I use the Include("Category") method. But it doesn't bring the full category, with its parent and children. I could do Include("Category.Parent"), but this object is something like a tree, I have a recursive hierarchy and I don't know where it ends.

How can I make EF fully load the Category, with parent and children, and the parent with their parent and children, and so on?

This is not something for the whole application, for performance considerations it would be needed only for this specific entity, the Category.

c# visual-studio-2008 entity-framework
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try this

List<SiteActionMap> list = this.GetQuery<SiteActionMap>()
                .Where(m => m.Parent == null && m.Active == true)
                .Include(m => m.Action)
                .Include(m => m.Parent).ToList();    

if (list == null)
    return null;

this.GetQuery<SiteActionMap>()
    .OrderBy(m => m.SortOrder)
    .Where(m => m.Active == true)
    .Include(m => m.Action)
    .Include(m => m.Parent)
    .ToList();

return list;
answered 2012-06-22T13:44:59.307

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