Entity Framework Best Practices In Business Logic?

Question

I am using the Entity framework for the first time, and would like to know if I am using in the best practice.

I have created a separate class in my business logic

Answer 1

What you can also do is store your context at a higher level.

E.g., you can have a static class storing the current context:

class ContextManager
{
    [ThreadStatic]
    public static ArticleEntities CurrentContext;
}

Then, somewhere outside you do something like this:

using (ContextManager.CurrentContext = new ArticleEntities())
{
    IEnumerable
 article = articleService.GetLatestArticles(true);
}

Then, inside the GetLastestArticles, you just use the same ContextManager.CurrentContext.

Of course, this is just the basic idea. You can make this a lot more workable by using service providers, IoC and such.