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    Posted: 06-Jul-2010 at 1:26pm
Hi

In the Silverlight client, is OfType<T> supported? It doesn't seem to be, but the list at http://www.ideablade.com/DevForceSilverlight/DevForceSilverlight_And_WCF_RIAServices_FeatureComparison.aspx suggests it is.

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Yes.  We support the entire range of operators that are available in the Entity Framework, including OfType<T>.
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What reference do I need to enable OfType<> in Silverlight? For example, the following doesn't work (OfType doesn't exist).

var mgr = new EntityManager();
mgr.Employees.OfType<Manager>();

I have tried the following and works - but is that functionally identical to the above?

var mgr = new EntityManager();
mgr.GetQuery<Manager>();

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You might be missing a using statement.  Can you check for:

using System.Linq
 
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Ah - thanks!

Can I just check though - this returns an IQuerable which I can cast to EntityQuery. Does the OfType filtering still take place in the storage (in my case in SQL), rather than at either the server or the client?

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Actually, no.  The filtering will be performed by the Entity Framework on the server or by DevForce on the client.  If you are using inheritance near the root of your hierarchy (as oppposed to near the leaf) and have a lot of subclasses, this will perform very poorly with the Entity Framework.
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