How to call Stored Procedure in Entity Framework 6

Question

I am very new to Entity Framework 6 and I want to implement stored procedures in my project. I have a stored procedure as follows:

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[insert_department]
    @Name [varchar](100)
AS
BEGIN
    INSERT [dbo].[Departments]([Name])
    VALUES (@Name)

    DECLARE @DeptId int

    SELECT @DeptId = [DeptId]
    FROM [dbo].[Departments]
    WHERE @@ROWCOUNT > 0 AND [DeptId] = SCOPE_IDENTITY()

    SELECT t0.[DeptId]
    FROM [dbo].[Departments] AS t0
    WHERE @@ROWCOUNT > 0 AND t0.[DeptId] = @DeptId
END

Department class:

public class Department
{
    public int DepartmentId { get; set; }       
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

modelBuilder 
.Entity<Department>() 
.MapToStoredProcedures(s => 
s.Update(u => u.HasName("modify_department") 
               .Parameter(b => b.Department, "department_id") 
               .Parameter(b => b.Name, "department_name")) 
 .Delete(d => d.HasName("delete_department") 
               .Parameter(b => b.DepartmentId, "department_id")) 
 .Insert(i => i.HasName("insert_department") 
               .Parameter(b => b.Name, "department_name")));

protected void btnSave_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    string department = txtDepartment.text.trim();

    // here I want to call the stored procedure to insert values
}

My problem is: how can I call the stored procedure and pass parameters into it?

Answer 1

It work for me at code first. It return a list with matching property of view model(StudentChapterCompletionViewModel)

var studentIdParameter = new SqlParameter
{
     ParameterName = "studentId",
     Direction = ParameterDirection.Input,
     SqlDbType = SqlDbType.BigInt,
     Value = studentId
 };

 var results = Context.Database.SqlQuery<StudentChapterCompletionViewModel>(
                "exec dbo.sp_StudentComplettion @studentId",
                 studentIdParameter
                ).ToList();

Updated for Context

Context is the instance of the class that Inherit DbContext like below.

public class ApplicationDbContext : DbContext
{
    public DbSet<City> City { get; set; }
}

var Context = new  ApplicationDbContext();

Answer 2

if you wanna pass table params into stored procedure, you must necessary set TypeName property for your table params.

SqlParameter codesParam = new SqlParameter(CODES_PARAM, SqlDbType.Structured);
            SqlParameter factoriesParam = new SqlParameter(FACTORIES_PARAM, SqlDbType.Structured);

            codesParam.Value = tbCodes;
            codesParam.TypeName = "[dbo].[MES_CodesType]";
            factoriesParam.Value = tbfactories;
            factoriesParam.TypeName = "[dbo].[MES_FactoriesType]";


            var list = _context.Database.SqlQuery<MESGoodsRemain>($"{SP_NAME} {CODES_PARAM}, {FACTORIES_PARAM}"
                , new SqlParameter[] {
                   codesParam,
                   factoriesParam
                }
                ).ToList();

Answer 3

You are using MapToStoredProcedures() which indicates that you are mapping your entities to stored procedures, when doing this you need to let go of the fact that there is a stored procedure and use the context as normal. Something like this (written into the browser so not tested)

using(MyContext context = new MyContext())
{
    Department department = new Department()
    {
        Name = txtDepartment.text.trim()
    };
    context.Set<Department>().Add(department);
}

If all you really trying to do is call a stored procedure directly then use SqlQuery

Answer 4

object[] xparams = {
            new SqlParameter("@ParametterWithNummvalue", DBNull.Value),
            new SqlParameter("@In_Parameter", "Value"),
            new SqlParameter("@Out_Parameter", SqlDbType.Int) {Direction = ParameterDirection.Output}};

        YourDbContext.Database.ExecuteSqlCommand("exec StoreProcedure_Name @ParametterWithNummvalue, @In_Parameter, @Out_Parameter", xparams);
        var ReturnValue = ((SqlParameter)params[2]).Value;