Filtering Included Entities

Learn about filtered includes in EF Core and filtering and sorting data using Entity Framework Core by creating a complex query.

Filtering data using FilteredIncludes method

EF Core 5 introduced filtered includes, which means we can specify a lambda expression in the Include method call to filter which entities are returned in the results:

Step 1: In Program.Queries.cs, define a FilteredIncludes method, and add statements to do these tasks, as shown in the following code:

  • Create an instance of the Northwind class that will manage the database.

  • Prompt the user to enter a minimum value for units in stock.

  • Create a query for categories with products with that minimum number of units in stock.

  • Enumerate through the ...