How to support Contains in Entity Framework 3.5

How can you retrieve the products that are contained in a list of id’s ?

var ids = new List() { 1, 2, 3, 500 };
using (var context = new AdventureWorksEntities())
{
  var products = from product in context.Products
                           where ids.Contains(product.ProductID)
                           select product;
  WriteProducts(products);
}

The good news, this is supported in Entity Framework v4.0, but since I’m on 3.5 I needed to find another solution. Luckily using the info from my previous post I can write an expression for this:

var ids = new List() { 1, 2, 3, 500 };
using (var context = new AdventureWorksEntities())
{
  Expression> idMatching = null; 
  foreach (var id in ids)
  {
    int productId = id;
    if(idMatching == null)
    {
      idMatching = x => x.ProductID == productId;
    }
    else
    {
      idMatching = idMatching.Or(x => x.ProductID == productId);
    }
  }
  var products = context.Products.Where(idMatching);
  WriteProducts(products);
}