Select Data - Eager Loading

Introduction
 
This working demonstrates an interesting and very useful concept in Entity Framework.
 
Question: What is eager loading?
 
In simple terms "when the loop is started, each of the objects that you have specified will be pulled from the database and built into a gigantic in-memory data structure. This will be a very expensive operation, pulling an enormous amount of data from your database. However, it will all happen in one database round trip, with a single SQL query execution".
 
Step 1: Create a new web application

EntityFramework.png
 
Step 2: Adding a new Entity Data Model Framework

EntityFramework1.png

Step 3: The complete code of WebForm1.aspx is as in the following:
 
 
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="WebForm1.aspx.cs" Inherits="SelectDataEagerLoadingApp.WebForm1" %> 
 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 <
html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <
head id="Head1" runat="server">
    
<title></title>
 </
head>
 <
body>
 
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
 
        <div>
 
            <center>
 
                <div>
 
                    <table>
 
                        <tr>
 
                            <td colspan="2" align="center">
 
                                <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Select Data - Eager Loading" Font-Bold="true" Font-Size="Large" Font-Names="Verdana"
 ForeColor="Maroon"></asp:Label></td>
 
                        </tr>
 
                        <tr>
 
                            <td colspan="2" align="center">
 
                                <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Select Data" Font-Names="Verdana" Width="213px" BackColor="Orange" Font-Bold="True" OnClick="Button1_Click"
 /></
td>
 
                        </tr>
 
                        <tr>
                            
<td colspan="2" align="center">
 
                                <asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" CssClass="grid" BackColor="LightGoldenrodYellow" BorderColor="Tan" BorderWidth="1px" CellPadding="2"
 ForeColor="Black" GridLines="None">
 
                                    <AlternatingRowStyle BackColor="PaleGoldenrod" />
 
                                    <FooterStyle BackColor="Tan" />
 
                                    <HeaderStyle BackColor="Tan" Font-Bold="True" />
 
                                    <PagerStyle BackColor="PaleGoldenrod" ForeColor="DarkSlateBlue" HorizontalAlign="Center" />
 
                                    <SelectedRowStyle BackColor="DarkSlateBlue" ForeColor="GhostWhite" />
 
                                    <SortedAscendingCellStyle BackColor="#FAFAE7" />
 
                                    <SortedAscendingHeaderStyle BackColor="#DAC09E" />
 
                                    <SortedDescendingCellStyle BackColor="#E1DB9C" />
 
                                    <SortedDescendingHeaderStyle BackColor="#C2A47B" />
 
                                    <EmptyDataTemplate>No Records Found!</EmptyDataTemplate>
 
                                </asp:GridView>
 
                            </td>
 
                        </tr>
 
                    </table>
 
                </div>
 
            </center>
 
        </div>
 
    </form>
 </
body>
 </
html>
 

Step 4: The complete code of WebForm1.aspx.cs is as in the following:
 
 
using System;
 
using System.Collections.Generic;
 
using System.Linq;
 
using System.Web;
 
using System.Web.UI;
 
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
 
namespace SelectDataEagerLoadingApp
 {
    
public partial class WebForm1 : System.Web.UI.Page
     {
        
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { }
         
protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
         {
            
using (CompanyEntities objEntities = new CompanyEntities())
             {
                 objEntities.ContextOptions.LazyLoadingEnabled =
false;
                 GridView1.DataSource = objEntities.tblEmployee.Take(15).ToList();
                 GridView1.DataBind();
             }
         }
     }
 
}
 
Step 5: The output of the application is as in the following:

EntityFramework2.png
 
Step 6: The select data output of the application is as in the following:

EntityFramework3.png
 
I hope this working was useful for you. I look forward for your comments and feedback. Thanks Vijay.


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