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While writing my tips series and writing EF controllers for MVC I found that I regularly wanted to create and attach a stub entity . Unfortunately it isn’t quite that simple, you have to make sure the entity isn’t already attached first, otherwise you’ll
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If you write a LINQ to Entities query like this: var results = from c in ctx.Vehicles.OfType<Car>() select c; It will bring back, Cars and any type that derives from Car, like say SportCar or SUV. If you just want Cars and you don’t want derived
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Imagine that in your database you have a cascade delete on an FK relationship. Something like this: Here the Delete Rule says that when a Category is deleted all the related Products should be deleted too. If you generate an EF model from this database
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For well over a year now I've been talking about how it is possible with EF to write a provider that sits between the EF and the native database provider. There are lots of reasons why you might do this. Here are some examples, you could write a: Tracing
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Sometimes rather than writing this: var customer = ctx.Customers.First(c => c.ID == 5); You would rather write something like this: var customer = ctx.Customers.GetCustomerById(5); In .NET 4.0 this would be trivial to do by modifying the T4 templates
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Customers often ask how to get from an Entity back to the ObjectContext . Now generally we don’t recommend trying this. But sometimes you really need a way to get to the ObjectContext . For example if you are in method and all you have is the Entity,
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Some of our customers write code like this: ctx.AddToCustomers(customer); ctx.AddToProducts(product1); ctx.AddToProducts(product2); And expect the Entity Framework to issue 3 insert commands in the same order. Today the EF doesn’t preserve this sort of
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