How to get property change notifications with EF 4.x DbContext generator

Question

I\'m playing around with Entity Framework 4.3, and so I am using the DbContext Generator to create the context and entity classes.

With the default EF 4 code genera

Answer 1

I recently stumbled upon this problem, i edited my Entity.tt to implement the following changes, a quick patch but works great..

Add the following to the CodeStringGenerator class

public string EntityClassOpening(EntityType entity)
{
    return string.Format(
        CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
        "{0} {1}partial class {2}{3} : {4}",
        Accessibility.ForType(entity),
        _code.SpaceAfter(_code.AbstractOption(entity)),
        _code.Escape(entity),
        _code.StringBefore(" : ", _typeMapper.GetTypeName(entity.BaseType)),
        "INotifyPropertyChanged");
}


public string Property(EdmProperty edmProperty)
{
    return string.Format(
        CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
        "{0} {1} {2} {{ {3}{6} {4}{5} }}",
        Accessibility.ForProperty(edmProperty),
        _typeMapper.GetTypeName(edmProperty.TypeUsage),
        _code.Escape(edmProperty),
        _code.SpaceAfter(Accessibility.ForGetter(edmProperty)),
        _code.SpaceAfter(Accessibility.ForSetter(edmProperty)),
        "set { _"+_code.Escape(edmProperty).ToLower()+" = value; OnPropertyChanged(\""+_code.Escape(edmProperty)+"\");}",
        "get { return _"+_code.Escape(edmProperty).ToLower()+"; }");

}
public string Private(EdmProperty edmProperty) {
    return string.Format(
        CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
        "{0} {1} _{2};",
        "private",
        _typeMapper.GetTypeName(edmProperty.TypeUsage),
        _code.Escape(edmProperty).ToLower());

}

Add the following to the generator

using System.ComponentModel;
<#=codeStringGenerator.EntityClassOpening(entity)#>
{
<#
var propertiesWithDefaultValues = typeMapper.GetPropertiesWithDefaultValues(entity);
var collectionNavigationProperties = typeMapper.GetCollectionNavigationProperties(entity);
var complexProperties = typeMapper.GetComplexProperties(entity);
#>

public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
protected virtual void OnPropertyChanged(string propertyName)
{
        PropertyChangedEventHandler handler = PropertyChanged;
        if (handler != null) handler(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
}

And abit further down

foreach (var edmProperty in simpleProperties)
{
#>
<#=codeStringGenerator.Private(edmProperty)#>
    <#=codeStringGenerator.Property(edmProperty)#>
<#
}


foreach(var complexProperty in complexProperties)
{
#>
<#=codeStringGenerator.Private(complexProperty)#>
    <#=codeStringGenerator.Property(complexProperty)#>
<#
}