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I'm using the repository pattern with EF, and I think I'm pretty much sold on it but one question remains;

If I want to eager load an entity, what is the best way to do this?

For example, I have a repository mapped to an entity:

public class EFFooRepository : IFooRepository
{
     public IQueryable<Foo> GetFoo()
     {
        .....
     }
}

What if I want to get Foo and Bar objects

db.Foo.Include("Bar")

But my repository only returns Foo, so do I need to create another method GetFooAndBar?

Is there a better way?

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If you have enabled lazyloading you can load the Bar later (When you are going to access the property) . But if you want to write a method which loads the data Foo with Bar at the same time yes you need to write specific repository methods.

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you can load the Bar later... That depends. The context must still be alive then. – Gert Arnold May 10 '12 at 16:23

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