使用EntityFramework MVC从数据库中检索数据并绑定到List <>

Question

I Have a table student in my database with some values and i want to display those values in webgrid using entityframework.

I have done the samething before many times using Ado.net, but the purpose of this for me is just to learn entity framework and im absolute beginner to Entityframework.

I used database first approach for this and in created a model Student with Id,FirstName,LastName,City.

i also defined a List and i want to bind the result set from the database to this Student List and bind it to the webgrid

 public List<Student> stList;


    public  List<Student> GetStudents()
    {
        stList = new List<Student>();
        EntityFWEntities OE = new EntityFWEntities();
        var Res = OE.Students;

    }

How can i assign the VAR value to List, also is this the correct approach i following or is there an other better approach, please correct me if im wrong

Answer 1

To create the List<Student> just use .ToList() method.

public List<Student> stList;
public  List<Student> GetStudents()
{
    using (EntityFWEntities OE = new EntityFWEntities())
    {
        //Assuming student has 4 properties ID, Name, Roll, DOB
        stList = OE.Students.Select(s=> new MvcApplication4.Models.Student(){ ID=s.ID, Name=s.Name, Roll=s.Roll, DOB=s.DOB}).ToList();
    }
}