Tip 24 – How to get the ObjectContext from an Entity

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re: Tip 24 – How to get the ObjectContext from an Entity

Bingo — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:11:07 GMT

Hi,

Will the next release (.NET 4??) of Entity Framework provide this in a more fundamental fashion.

Maybe as a property like EntityObject.ObjectContext?

re: Tip 24 – How to get the ObjectContext from an Entity

AlexJ — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:23:51 GMT

Bingo

We are thinking about adding something, probably a static method on ObjectContext

i.e.

ObjectContext context = ObjectContext.GetContext(entity);

But we need to weigh that up against a lot of other competing ideas, so it might not make it.

Alex

re: Tip 24 – How to get the ObjectContext from an Entity

AlexY — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:56:45 GMT

Thanks a lot for your tips.

I realy enjoy your blog.

Easy Peasy is not not sometimes easy ;-)

re: Tip 24 – How to get the ObjectContext from an Entity

Manoj — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:15:11 GMT

A related issue is that once an entity is detached from context, it loses all the relationship. This is due to the fact that the relationships are tightly coupled to EF. Hopefully EF2 addresses this in a more POCO-friendly fashion.