How to find and access navigation properties?

Question

Hi

I've  created a base business class for my application which performs basic CRUD operations based on EF 4:

public abstract class BusinessBase<T> where T : ObjectContext, new()
 {

public virtual List<TEntity> GetByPredicate<TEntity>(Expression<Func<TEntity, bool>> predicate) where TEntity : EntityObject
            {
                using (T objectContext = new T())
                {
                   
                    ObjectSet<TEntity> objectSet = objectContext.CreateObjectSet<TEntity>();
                    objectSet.MergeOption = MergeOption.NoTracking;
                    return objectSet.Where(predicate).ToList();
                }
            }

GetPredicate methods works well to retrieve all entity objects of type TEntity. But I need to be able to fetch the related records as well. I also need to set the MergeOption property of all related entities to "NoTracking" for some reasons.

Is there a general way to find and iterate through the Navigation Properties of an entity in EF 4?

 

Thanks