Entity Framework: Check all relationships of an entity for foreign key use

Question

I have an entity, let\'s call it CommonEntity that has a primary key used as a foreign key in many other entities. As the application is developed these links w

Answer 1

Just let it fail. If the entity has many relationships, that verification could be really heavy.

public bool TryDelete(int id)
{
    try
    {
        // Delete
        return true;
    }
    catch (SqlException ex)
    {
        if (ex.Number == 547) return false; // The {...} statement conflicted with the {...} constraint {...}
        throw; // other error
    }
}