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C# Entity Framework Basics LINQ Queries Writing a Detail Query

what am i missing?

i cant quite get this one nailed down. any help or suggestions?

Course.cs
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    public class Course
    {
        public Course()
        {
            Students = new List<CourseStudent>();
        }

        public int Id { get; set; }
        public int TeacherId { get; set; }
        [Required, StringLength(200)]
        public string Title { get; set; }
        public string Description { get; set; }
        public int Length { get; set; }

        public Teacher Teacher { get; set; }
        public ICollection<CourseStudent> Students { get; set; }
    }
}
Repository.cs
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data.Entity;
using System.Linq;

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    public static class Repository
    {
        public static List<Course> GetCourses()
        {
            using (var context = new Context())
            {
                return context.Courses
                              .OrderBy(c => c.Teacher.LastName)
                              .ThenBy(c => c.Teacher.FirstName)
                              .ToList();
            }
        }

        public static List<Course> GetCoursesByTeacher(string lastName)
        {
            using (var context = new Context())
            {
                return context.Courses
                              .Where(c => c.Teacher.LastName == lastName)
                              .ToList();
            }
        }

        public static Course GetCourse(int id)
        {
            using (var context = new Context())
            {

            return context.Courses
                .Include(c => c.Teacher)
                .SingleOrDefault(c => c.Id == c.Teacher.Id);
            }
        }
    }
}

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,608 Points

You're very close!

But remember that you want to compare the Course's Id to the id that was passed as an argument (not to the Teacher's Id).

thank you.....i got passed it