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I'm doing the mvcmusicstore practice tutorial. I noticed something when creating the scaffold for the album manager (add delete edit).
I want to write code elegantly, so i'm looking for the clean way to write this.
FYI i'm making the store more generic:
Albums = Items
Genres = Categories
Artist = Brand
Here is how the index is retrieved (generated by MVC):
var items = db.Items.Include(i => i.Category).Include(i => i.Brand);
Here is how the item for delete is retrieved:
Item item = db.Items.Find(id);
The first one brings back all the items and populates the category and brand models inside the item model. The second one, doesn't populate the category and brand.
How can i write the second one to do the find AND populate whats inside (preferably in 1 line)... theoretically - something like:
Item item = db.Items.Find(id).Include(i => i.Category).Include(i => i.Brand);