Changing the type of collection navigation properties to ObservableCollection

Question

Hi,

I am using Entity Framework 4.1, Database first and the DbContext API

I noticed that collection navigation properties of the entities generated with the DbContext T4 template are declared as ICollection.

To fully use the binding support of WPF I changed the type from ICollection to ObservableCollection. This works great.

My question is: Are there any consequences from this change that I need to know of?

Thanks,

Michel Miranda

Answer 1

Hi Michel,

Welcome!

As far as I know, I don't think there are any consequences from this change. Let's see the definition of ObservableCollection. It inherits from Collection<T>, INotifyCollectionChanged, INotifyPropertyChanged

Have a nice day. 

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Answer 2

Hi Alan,

Of course! Thank you for your help!

Michel Miranda