LINQ entity from database view with MANY to MANY relation - sql-server

Question

i have a problem. I have a database view with many to many relation, it looks like this
SELECT TOP (100) PERCENT dbo.PostAdditional.Description, dbo.PostAdditional.Summary, dbo.PostAdditional.Title, dbo.Post.PostID, dbo.Post.Type, dbo.Tags.TagID, dbo.Tags.TagName,
FROM dbo.Post
INNER JOIN dbo.PostAdditional ON dbo.Post.PostID = dbo.PostAdditional.PostID
INNER JOIN dbo.PostWithTags ON dbo.Post.EventID = dbo.PostWithTags.PostID
INNER JOIN dbo.Tags ON dbo.PostWithTags.TagID = dbo.Tags.TagID
ORDER BY dbo.Post.StartDate, dbo.Post.PubDate
I want to use LINQ to SQL to work with it. When I normaly put this view in DBML designer, it creates an entity. But entity has proterty TagName as String, and I want it as array of tag names (or better List<>). When I take data from database, i get one copy of Post entity for evry single tag, but I want to get one Post entity with array of all tags associated.

Answer 1

Maybe this will help:
I changed this join from
INNER JOIN dbo.PostWithTags ON dbo.Post.EventID = dbo.PostWithTags.PostID
To
INNER JOIN dbo.PostWithTags ON dbo.Post.PostID = dbo.PostWithTags.PostID
And if I understand you right is this what you want?
var test=
(
from p in db.Post
orderby p.StartDate,p.PubDate
select new
{
p.PostID,
p.Type,
Tags=
(
from pa in db.PostAdditional
join pwt in db.PostWithTags
on pa.PostID equals pwt.PostID
join t in db.Tags
on pwt.TagID equals t.TagID
where p.PostID == pa.PostID
select new
{
pa.Description,
pa.Summary,
pa.Title,
t.TagID,
t.TagName
}
)
}
).ToList();
Where db is the databasecontext