domain-service-class

When using EF Code First, It appears WCF RIA Services Wizard (that runs when adding a new DomainService) in VS 2012 does not recognize the DbContexts defined in the project (it only recognizes the ObjectContext). This means that when Adding a New Item in VS2012 and choosing Add DomainServiceClass, the wizard is not able to detect available context classes * combo list is empty * Please see the attached image Any idea what could be happening here? Thanks, -Sumit This is a known issue with Visual Studio 2012, WCF RIA Services and Entity Framework, cause the Wizard to create new Domain Services

Closed . This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers. Learn more . Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post . I always see some classes that is named "ClassNameService", well what is the difference as logic? What is the goal of these service classes? John Generally speaking, there could be a hierarchy of domain objects which are controlled by the services. If these domain objects are only data placeholders without behaviour then this is not true to object oriented programming. Check the following