how to assign DbEntities object to my model object in EF Database first

Question

I am doing a project for my course work, I am using database first entity framework and got my DBContext class as

public partial class StudentDBEntities : DbContext
    {
         public DbSet<LoginDetail> LoginDetails { get; set; }
        public DbSet<StudentDetail> StudentDetails { get; set; }
        public DbSet<UserFriend> UserFriends { get; set; }
}

Now I created a model object as below to use this model to pass on view.

public class ViewStudentDetail
    {    
        public StudentDetail Student { get; set; }
        public UserFriend Friends { get; set; }

    }

here is my StudentDetail class created default

public partial class StudentDetail
    {
        public StudentDetail()
        {
            this.UserFriends = new HashSet<UserFriend>();
        }
        public string StudentName { get; set; }
        public string UnivName { get; set; }
        public string City { get; set; }
        public string Username { get; set; }
        public string Password { get; set; }
        public string EmailId { get; set; }

        public virtual ICollection<UserFriend> UserFriends { get; set; }
    }

In my View I have find a friend scenario and text box value passed is ViewStudentDetail.Friends.username.to the post method

My problem is that I want to assign the StudentDetails with the given username from DbContext object (that are already saved in database during registration) to the model object In My controller i have like this

  StudentDBEntities DbAccess = new StudentDBEntities();
 ViewStudentDetail Studentdetails = new ViewStudentDetail();
    Studentdetails.Student = DbAccess.StudentDetails .Find(username);

This assignment is not working and is assigning null. Could you please tell me how to fetch the values in db to model object. Also if i need to assign each attribute to model please help me with the syntax to fetch from db object.

Answer 1

The DbSet.Find() method searches only for PRIMARY KEY matches, it will not search all/any properties on an entity.

I think you are looking for something like this:

ViewStudentDetail.Student = DbAccess.StudentDetails.FirstOrDefault(student => student.Username == username);

If not, please provide more of your source code in your question. Specifically, please include the generated entity classes.