实体框架4自连接-延迟加载父对象和子集合

Question

我正在尝试使用entity framework 4实现自连接，我的用例如下：

public class Category
{
    /// <summary>
    /// category id
    /// </summary>
    [Key]
    [DatabaseGenerated(System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema.DatabaseGeneratedOption.Identity)]
    public int CatID { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// category name
    /// </summary>
    [Required(ErrorMessage="Vui lòng nhập tên.")]
    [MaxLength(100, ErrorMessage="Tên chỉ có độ dài tối đa 100 ký tự.")]
    public string CatName { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// parent category id
    /// self join :)
    /// </summary>
    public int? ParentID { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// parent category
    /// </summary>
    [ForeignKey("ParentID")]
    public virtual Category ParentCategory { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// products list
    /// </summary>
    public virtual IEnumerable<Product> Products { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// categories which are associate with this category
    /// </summary>
    public virtual IEnumerable<Category> Categories { get; set; }
}

如您所见，子类别将通过外键引用父类别。有了这个实现，我可以通过使用外键属性延迟加载ParentCategory。但子集合分类并不是延迟加载。如何强制延迟加载子集合？

编辑

如果我没有过滤结果集，则父集合和子集合的延迟加载将正常工作：

var cat = context.Category.ToList();

Buf如果我过滤结果集，则不会延迟加载子集合

var cat = from entity in context.Category
          where entity.Parent == null
          select entity;
//child collection will be null

Answer 1

使用“包含”方法加载集合：

var selectedList = entity.where(m=>m.parent==null).include(m=>m.Categories).tolist();