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There simply isn't enough code here to make any real judgment of what you're doing. I can see some smallish things but nothing about any patterns you're using.

1) Your method is called "Return..." something. Personally, I always name methods that return something "Get...". Return is a bit more vague as to what it does. Does "Return" refer to retrieving a database object, or does it refer to some business rule method. It's the concept of "self documenting code". Method names should describe exactly what they do.

2) Entities (or DbContext) classes should be Disposed when you're done with them. It should be something like this:
C#
internal static Purchase GetPurchaseItem(int purchaseId)
{
    Purchase purchase = null;

    using (var context = new RegulusEntities())
    {
        return context.Purchases.Find(purchaseId);
    }
}


3) If you have a primary key Id for an object, you don't need an entire Linq query to find it. You just need to call the Find method to retrieve it. Find() will return the object with the specified key. If it's not found, it'll throw a InvalidOperationException. You can replace it with FirstOrDefault() if you want the "Get..." method to return a null of the specified type instead of throwing.

Other than that, a couple of rules I follow:

I don't have my database code return any ViewModel objects, not does it accept any. My database layer will accept and return Entity objects only. If these objects need to be translated into ViewModel objects, I can have another layer above this that does the translation, such as in an MVC Controller class or what I call a "Services" class.

I never expose my database layer directly to UI code.

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