Entity Framework Foreign Key Select

Question

I have a model

Retailer which has the fields

ID

Name

and another

Store

StoreName

RetailerID

In SQL to get the name of the retailer rather than just the ID when selecting all stores I can use a join.

How do I go about this in EF??

using (var context = new DBContext())
{    
//Get all stores with the name of the retailer
}

Thanks

Answer 1

You can simply access the related Retailer object on the Store object itself, for example:

using(var context = new DBContext())
{
    var myStore = context.Stores.First(s => s.StoreName == "my store");
    string retailerName = myStore.Retailer.Name;
}