Repository pattern to execute a stored procedure using Entity Framework

ADO.NET Entity Framework cannot run stored procedures.

Thanks, pmarflee....I actually came here to post my resolution to this and saw your response at the same time. This code actually uses the entity framework's connection and executes the stored procedure I imported into the model. Microsoft keeps pushing us developers to use Entity Framework instead of LINQ to SQL and other DAL generators but EF ...

Return ListDataTable> or DataSet from an Entity Framework stored method.

How do I modify the below method to return a List< DataTable> or a DataSet? I want to make it generic so it can return multiple resultsets from the database....public static DataTable ExecuteStoredProcedure(ObjectContext db, string storedProcedureName, IEnumerable<SqlParameter> parameters) { var entityConnection = (EntityConnection) db....

Benefit of using Unit of Work and Repository Patterns with Entity Framework

Yes, ...DbContext... represents a Unit of Work and ...DbSet... represents a Repository, but some people will create a layer of abstraction over them. Here are some reasons people might do so:...Maybe they don't want their project tightly coupled to Entity Framework and its architecture. So, they hide Entity Framework behind those abstractions so th...

How to execute a stored procedure without returning results in Entity Framework 6?

I have a stored procedure like this:...CREATE PROCEDURE InsertTest(@p1 NVARCHAR(50) , @p2 INT) AS BEGIN INSERT INTO dbo.Test(Name, Code) VALUES ( N'', 0) END ...or other ...I try with this code:...context.Database.SqlQuery<int>("InsertTest @p1 , @p2", "a",1); ...But this leads to error....How can I run it using ...DbContext... ?

MVC 5 Entity Framework 6 Execute Stored Procedure

Wow, it seems right after I give up, I somehow stumble upon the answer. I found a ...FANTASTIC post... about executing stored procedures and after reading up, this was my solution:...var contacts = db.Database.SqlQuery<Contact>("Contact_Search @LastName, @FirstName", ...So, many thanks to Anuraj for his excellent post! The key to my solution was t...

Executing a stored procedure that returns a result set and has output parameters with Entity Framework

I apologize, as I am a little bit confused by your problem. ...Let's say you do this before executing your stored procedures.... SqlCommandBuilder.DeriveParameters(_sqlCommand); ...This would put all of the parameters in you sql command object. After executing,... _sqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery(); ...Any parameter in you stored procedure that had ...

Stored procedure whose result set lacks a primary key won't execute with Entity Framework 6

I'm calling a stored procedure whose result set has no primary key, and no candidate keys. I created an entity called ...Foo... to represent a record in the results set, so the stored procedure will result in a ...List<Foo>.... The entity looks something like this:...public class Foo { public Guid FooID { get; set; } public Guid AnotherFoo...

How to use Repository pattern using Database first approach in entity framework

How to use Repository pattern using Database first approach in entity framework.I got some idea while going through resources available on internet but for real time applications I am not sure how to implement repository pattern on the auto generated classes from the DB first approach....I have already gone through some links in SO but I did not ge...

Get return value from stored procedure using ExecuteSqlCommand (using Entity Framework)

I have code that looks like this:...int retval = databaseContext.Database.ExecuteSqlCommand(command, sqlParameters.ToArray()); ...Where databaseContext is of type System.Data.Entity.DbContext...I want to use the return value to know whether or not the stored procedure ran successfuly. Based on ...the documentation...ExecuteSqlCommand... should ret...

Execute stored procedure using entity framework

You can call ...SqlQuery... from your Entity Framework data context. ...context.Database.SqlQuery<YourType>("exec usp_StoredProcedure").ToList() ...You would need a class to map the query results back, as an example:...public class YourType { public string Property1 { get; set; } public string Property2 { get; set; } } ...You can also specif...