EF4 - entitySetName enum or list

Question

Hy,

 

I have a problem with EntitySetName in a string. If an entity name change, the compilation will be OK, but an exception will be thrown.

In .net 3.5, I coded manually an enum wich contains all EntitySetName, and used

myEnum.anEntitySetName.ToString()

With EF4 and EF4 CTP4, we can use Include with lambda-expression wich is a good alternative. Does an aleternative exist for the ObjectContext.AddObject functionnality? And what about the others functionnalities which need an EntitySetName in string?

Is it possible to generate this enum from the model ?

Thanks in advance, best regards

Answer 1

Hi,

On ObjectContext you can use CreateObjectSet<T>() to avoid needing entity set names. In CTP4 we introduced a simplified abstraction over ObjectContext (DbContext) that assumes types and entity sets are 1:1 and therefore does not expose the concept of an entity set.

~Rowan