How to implement a left outer join in the Entity Framework.
- by user206736
I have the following SQL query:-
select distinct * from dbo.Profiles profiles
left join ProfileSettings pSet on pSet.ProfileKey = profiles.ProfileKey
left join PlatformIdentities pId on pId.ProfileKey = profiles.Profilekey
I need to convert it to a LinqToEntities expression. I have tried the following:-
from profiles in _dbContext.ProfileSet
let leftOuter = (from pSet in _dbContext.ProfileSettingSet
select new
{
pSet.isInternal
}).FirstOrDefault()
select new
{
profiles.ProfileKey,
Internal = leftOuter.isInternal,
profiles.FirstName,
profiles.LastName,
profiles.EmailAddress,
profiles.DateCreated,
profiles.LastLoggedIn,
};
The above query works fine because I haven't considered the third table "PlatformIdentities". Single left outer join works with what I have done above. How do I include PlatformIdentities (the 3rd table) ? I basically want to translate the SQL query I specified at the beginning of this post (which gives me exactly what I need) in to LinqToEntities.
Thanks
