Does ADO.NET Entity Framework have a construct similar to Linq-To-SQL's GetTable<T>

Question

I'm trying to do something similar in Entity Framework, that I'm very used to doing in Linq-To-Sql. Now my question is if EF has the same capability, that I'm unable to figure out.

Linq-To-Sql:

dataContext.GetTable<T>();

Would yield a Queryable collection of type 'T'.

In Entity Framework I would like to do the same:

    //NOTICE: This is a partial extension of the auto-generated Entities-model
    //        created by the designer.
    public partial class Entities : IEntities
    {
      public IQueryable<T> FindAll<T>()
      {
        //pseudo-code
        // return from all entities, the entities that are of type T as Queryable
      }
    }

Since I wasn't able to figure this out, I made, what I consider, a "smelly" work-around:

    //NOTICE: This is a partial extension of the auto-generated Entities-model
    //        created by the designer.
    public partial class Entities : IEntities
    {
      public IQueryable<Users> FindAllUsersQueryable
      {
        get { return Users; }
      }

      public IQueryable<Registrations> FindAllRegistrationsQueryable
      {
        get { return Registrations; }
      }

      //... and so on ...
    }

What I want is something similar to:

    //NOTICE: This is a partial extension of the auto-generated Entities-model
    //        created by the designer.
    public partial class Entities : IEntities
    {
      public IQueryable<T> FindAll<T>()
      {
        return GetEntities<T>();
      }
    }

But so far I haven't been able to find out how to do that.

Anyone got a tip?

Answer 1

Marking as wiki as I can't claim any credit, but an MSFT answer to this question is here: What is the equivilant of GetTable in L2E.

Answer 2

    public IQueryable<T> FindAll<T>()
    {
        var baseType = typeof(T);
        return CreateQuery<T>("[" + baseType.Name.ToString() + "]").OfType<T>();
    }

Also seems to do the job for me :-)