Creating Entity Classes With The O/R Designer?
Aug 15, 2011
I am using the O/R Designer to create entity classes in VB 2010. I am observing different results for different database tables that I can't explain and more importantly, can't replicate the results that I want.Using server explorer, I have dragged a number of tables on the O/R designer surface, thereby creating the entity classes.
I have saved the project and can access the various entity classes in my project code. I first noticed a difference when changes made to object instances from some tables/entity classes appeared to persist while changes made to object instances from other tables/entity classes did not persist. These object instances are created, accessed, and changed using the exact same code patterns except for the object, class and table names.
I have been looking to see if there are any differences between the way in which the entity classes are treated, either in my code, in server explorer, or in the O/R Designer. I cannot find any. The properties of the entity classes indicate that all of the classes use the runtime methods for insert, delete and update. As far as I am aware, I have not knowingly made changes to these methods.
The ONLY difference that I find is in the file NameofClass.designer.vb. This is an automatically generated document. The partial class of those objects that appear to persist changes contains different code from that of other partial classes where changes to objects do not persist.In the declarations section of this partial class, the following lines appear:
<Global.System.Data.Linq.Mapping.TableAttribute(Name:="dbo.OrderofBattle")> _
Partial Public Class OrderofBattle
Implements System.ComponentModel.INotifyPropertyChanging, System.ComponentModel.INotifyPropertyChanged
[code]....
If I am right then I want to enable persistence in my other classes by causing this additional code to be generated for them. But how? why the code for this one class hase been generated differently than for all the others (actually it is this way for 2 out of about 15 classes). What setting or or selection do I have to make to enable this code to be created for my other entity classes during the automated process?
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I'm using a 3rd party tool to generate my model including code classes for the MS Entity framework. What I wanna do is etablish a real layer application. I'm speaking of the layers:
Presentation
Business
Data
If I'm not wrong the generated classes represent the data layer. My question is if I should wrap this classes up for my business layer or not. In some way these generated classes already represents the logic of my application as it was derived from my database. But is this enough?
I definitely wanna use LINQ as well which works pretty good with the generated classes alone.
I'm looking forward to any comments.BTW: It's going to be a ASP.NET web application. I have used the projetc type "class library" for the data layer. The web application will use this DLL.
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To prevent possible data loss before loading the designer, the following errors must be resolved:
1 Error
The designer must create an instance of type "XX_ExpandContentsPanel2.IOCardMaster", but it cannot because the type is declared as abstract.
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Autogenerated class
[Code]...
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[Code]...
Error (occurs when calling _Context.SaveChanges()): Store update, insert, or delete statement affected an unexpected number of rows (0). Entities may have been modified or deleted since entities were loaded. Refresh ObjectStateManager entries.
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Dim i As Integer
i = PictureBox1.Top
Timer2.Enabled = False
[Code]....
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Public Class Square
Private _side As Integer
Private _area As Integer
[code].....
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[Code]...
The line Order By Key.RecordOrder throws a null reference exception and I can understand why. Can someone advise on how to resolve this by just modifying this one query? I am fairly new to LINQ and the necessity to write this project
[Code]...
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[Code]....
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protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
modelBuilder.Entity<Post>()
.Map(m =>
[code]....
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Dim db as New TestModel.TestEntity
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public class QueueObject<T> where T : System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Client.Entity
{
public string LoadingMessage { get; set; }
public System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Client.EntityQuery<T> Query { get; set; }
}
I am trying to add instances of this class to a queue
private Queue<QueueObject<Entity>> _queue;
this._queue.Enqueue(new QueueObject<MyEntity> {Query = MyContext.GetMyEntitiesQuery(), LoadingMessage = "Loading some stuff"});
This doesn't work. I get an error saying that QueueObject cannont be converted to QueueObject. I don't understand because MyEntity inherits from Entity.
Public Class QueueObject(Of T As System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Client.Entity)
Public Property LoadingMessage As String
Public Property Query As System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Client.EntityQuery(Of T)
End Class
[code]....
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Public Class MyInterface
Public Economic as EconomicClass
Public Sub New()
MyBase.New()
[code].....
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interface.Economic.MyMethod
interface.Currency.MyMethod
etc
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Here is some example code of what I mean:
vb
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender as Object, e as systemEventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
[Code]....
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From the MSDN website I came across "Creating Classes in Visual Basic"
I didn't know a Class could be created.So in your most non-technical laungage with the most layman terms posible. How would you describe a Class, Why would I need to create a Class?
[Code]...
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so far i got
code
For Each item As Reflection.FieldInfo In GetType(NameSpace.ClassWithNestedClasses).GetFields
rtfAppend(item.Name & ":" & Tab & item.GetValue(Me))
Next
For Each item As Reflection.PropertyInfo In GetType(NameSpace.ClassWithNestedClasses).GetProperties()
[code]...
which gets me the simple string vars and properties of my top class, but how can i apply this to loop through all sub classes and get there vars and props?
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