Calling a Stored Procedure/Function in Entity Framework using DBContext

In this blog you will learn how to Call a Stored Procedure/Function in Entity Framework using DBContext.

Executing a stored procedure/function is easier in entity framework. The following steps explain how to call a stored procedure/function and return single or tabular values.

Step 1: Create an entity class which inherits “DbContext” class.

public partial class MyDatabaseEntites: DbContext {

    public MyDatabaseEntites(): base("name=MyDatabaseEntites") {

    }

    public DbSet < Table1 > Table1DbSet {
        get;
        set;
    }
    public DbSet < Table2 > Table2DbSet {
        get;
        set;
    }............

}

Step 2: The following is the structure of the database with table and stored procedure.

CREATE PROCEDURE GetTable1Data
AS
SELECT * FROM Table1
GO

Step 3: Create a class to store the returned tabular value.

public class Table1Results
{
   public int Column1 {get; set;}
   public string Column2 {get; set;}
   public string Column3 {get; set;}
   public string Column4 {get; set;}
}

Step 4: Create an object for the entity above and method to call a function.

public class RepositoryClass {
    private readonly DbContext myDatabaseReposityContext = null;

    public RepositoryClass() {
        myDatabaseReposityContext = new MyDatabaseEntites();
    }

    public List < Table1Results > GetTable1DataFromProc() {
        var query = "Exec GetTable1Data";

        object[] parameters = new object[] {};

        var response = myDatabaseReposityContext.Database.SqlQuery < Table1Results > (query, parameters).ToList();

        return response;
    }
}

Step 5: Call the “RepositoryClass” class and “GetTable1DataFromProc” method.