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In general, with EF, the way to get all of the objects in your context as a List<T> would be something like:

context.Users.ToList();

But since Users would be an IEnumerable in your context anyway, you can do virtually any kind of iteration or querying directly on context.Users

AllenG 2010-06-15 16:54:21

Ok, but how do I get my EF ObjectContext to know about my User domain object and then get it to populate my User object from the POCO it created from the database table? It already created a POCO called TBL_USER, but I don't want to use that object, I want to be able to use my User object in my business layer.

Dan H 2010-06-15 18:42:24

@Dan, there may be frameworks that do this for you, but if so, I'm not familiar with any. Based on that, I would create a method on my user type that takes an object of TBL_USER and converts to your BL type. Populate a list with your created objects.I'm not sure, however, that's the best answer. If you're already moving from a DB to an Entity POCO object, you may want to look at your problem-space to be sure you really then need an extra business object...

AllenG 2010-06-15 19:07:05

I'm not sure I need my extra business objects now. But I still have the issue of EF creating the POCO objects and they reflect my tables in my database, I want my business objects to reflect my Domain Model. Know what I mean? Maybe I need to look closer and see exactly how the POCOs are created and see if they would work.

Dan H 2010-06-16 15:28:26

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Examples how to put entity framework 4 in n-tier arhitecture in order of complexity:

Yury Tarabanko 2010-06-18 08:40:08

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