entity-framework-4.1

I've encountered what seems to be a common problem: I am updating values in my database, but EF is using its original in-memory copy of the object and these changed values are not reflected in the displayed data. I understand why this is, but I can't figure out a way around it. The most common solution seems to be to set MergeOptions.NoTracking to turn off change tracking completely (or use the AsNoTracking() extension method when querying) and force a refresh every time the object is accessed, which is fine for my purposes. I've got a generic base repository which my other repositories

I have a DbContext with several of the following type of members: public DbSet<JobLevel> JobLevels { get; set; } public DbSet<Country> Countries { get; set; } public DbSet<Race> Races { get; set; } public DbSet<Language> Languages { get; set; } public DbSet<Title> Titles { get; set; } All these are where T: IdNamePairBase , which has Id and Name members only. I am trying desperately to find a common interface with which to access any of these members, to generalise the following MVC3 controller code into one controller: public ActionResult Edit(DropDownListModel model, Guid) { var dbSet =

Is it possible to define a many-to-many relationship in Entity Framework 4.1 (Code First approach) using Data Annotations only, without model builder? For example, something like: Product = { Id, Name, ... } Category = { Id, Name, ... } ProductCategory = { ProductId, CategoryId } You get the picture. I don't want to have an intermediate entity ProductCategory in the context with two many-to-ones since I don't have any additional data, just the two FKs. Also, I should be able to define table name for the intermediate table for use with an existing database. It is possible to define many-to-many

I'm doing an Windows Phone app where I have a WebApi running in Azure. I'm using the new "Portable Class Library" (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg597391.aspx) for my "Models" project which is of cause shared between my WebApi project (this is a normale ASp.NET MVC 4 project) and my Windows Phone project. This works great and the model (POCO) classes are serialized and deserialized just as I want. Now I want to start storing some of my Models/POCO objects and would like to use EF Code-first for that, but that's kind of a problem as I can't add the EntityFramework assembly to my

I'm using EF 4.3.1 ... just upgraded to 4.4 (problem remains) with database-first POCO entities generated by the EF 4.x DbContext Generator . I have the following database named 'Wiki' (SQL script to create tables and data is here ): When a wiki article is edited, instead of its record being updated, the new revision is inserted as a new record with the revision counter incremented. In my database there is one author, "John Doe", which has two articles, "Article A" and "Article B", where article A has two version (1 and 2), but article B has only one version. I have both lazy loading and proxy

My code is giving me an EntityCommandExecutionException when i'm trying getting data from my Bieren Table. The exception message says that it can't find "dbo.Biers" which is quite obvious because it's called "dbo.Bieren". I can quite easily fix this by just renaming the table in the database. Altough i don't like fixing my database around my code's errors. How can i make the entity framework use the correct table instead of changing the name of my table? Thanks in advance. Jin-Wook Chung For the database-first approach, StriplingWarrior's solution works well. But if you use the code-first