openaccess - Setting ID from related table in Telerik Open Access ORM -

i'm quite new using openaccess please bear me.

i have table called messages has column called messagetypeid, available ids in table called messagetypes, how can programmatically obtain id specific messagetype , assign new message object i'm creating.

there 2 possible solutions getting existing messagetype object associated new message 1 - please find them below:

1) associate them directly whole object using navigation property recommended approach - please find example below:

using (entitiesmodel db = new entitiesmodel()) {     message message = new message();     // existing messagetype database e.g. first 1 or     // db.messagetypes.first(mt => mt.name == "thenameyouarelookingfor");     messagetype messagetype = db.messagetypes.first();      message.messagetype = messagetype;      db.add(message);     db.savechanges(); } 

2) associate them using id of existing object below:

using (entitiesmodel db = new entitiesmodel()) {      message message = new message();     int messagetypeid = db.messagetypes.first().id;     message.messagetypeid = messagetypeid;      db.add(message);     db.savechanges(); } 

you find recommended approaches crud operations 1 have described @ the related documentation section.

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