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i have employee table , display correctly employeestatusid have employeestatus text along employeestatusid how handle this?

i have following model:

employee.cs

 public class employee  {         [key]         public int? recordid { get; set; }         public string company{ get; set; }         public string name{ get; set; }         public int? employeestatusid { get; set; }  } 

employeestatus:

public class employeestatus {     public int id{ get; set; }     public string name { get; set; } } 

dbcontext:

public class datacenterdb : dbcontext {            public dbset<employee> employees { get; set; }     public dbset<employeestatus> employeestatus { get; set; }      protected override void onmodelcreating(dbmodelbuilder modelbuilder)     {         modelbuilder.entity<employee>().totable("employee");         modelbuilder.entity<employeestatus>().totable("employeestatus");         base.onmodelcreating(modelbuilder);     } } 

in view use:

@html.displayfor(x => x.employeestatus.name) 

this the employeestatus name value model. long relations correct entity framework automatically link them.

in model

public class employee  {     [key]     public int recordid { get; set; }     public string company{ get; set; }     public string name{ get; set; }     public int employeestatusid { get; set; }     public virtual employeestatus employeestatus {get;set;}  }  public class employeestatus {     public int id{ get; set; }     public string name { get; set; }     public virtual icollection<employee> employees { get; set; } } 

i used keyword virtual in class knows link employee entity employeestatus entity. if it's foreign key relationship employeestatus id should not nullable