Entity framework and many to many queries unusable?

Posted by John Landheer on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by John Landheer
Published on 2009-02-16T16:36:36Z Indexed on 2010/03/30 14:03 UTC
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I'm trying EF out and I do a lot of filtering based on many to many relationships. For instance I have persons, locations and a personlocation table to link the two. I also have a role and personrole table.

EDIT: Tables:

Person (personid, name)

Personlocation (personid, locationid)

Location (locationid, description)

Personrole (personid, roleid)

Role (roleid, description)

EF will give me persons, roles and location entities. EDIT: Since EF will NOT generate the personlocation and personrole entity types, they cannot be used in the query.

How do I create a query to give me all the persons of a given location with a given role?

In SQL the query would be

select p.*
from persons as p
join personlocations as pl on p.personid=pl.personid
join locations       as l  on pl.locationid=l.locationid
join personroles     as pr on p.personid=pr.personid
join roles           as r  on pr.roleid=r.roleid
where r.description='Student' and l.description='Amsterdam'

I've looked, but I can't seem to find a simple solution.

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