Does Entity Framework 4 have a Contains feature?

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Published on 2010-05-17T00:05:05Z Indexed on 2010/05/17 0:10 UTC
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Right now I am using an extension to linq to provide me with the functionality of Contains. I call the WhereIn like this:

Answers = Answers.WhereIn(x => x.category.catid, catSTRarray);

Is there a built in function within entity framework to use?

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