Use EF4 DbContext with Domain Service

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I built my data access layer with the new code first stuff from Entity Framework 4, with a class derived from DbContext and various DbSet members.

Now I'm expanding to Silverlight and want to use WCF RIA services to access the DB. Do I have to start over with ADO.NET Entity Data Models, or is there some way to use what I've got?

BenCr · Answer 1 · 2013-04-03T16:19:26.417

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I'm a little late to the party but for people still looking for this, like I was earlier, take a look at this NuGet package.

http://nuget.org/packages/RIAServices.EntityFramework

It provides a DbDomainService<> base class similar to the LinqToEntitiesDomainService<>.

edited Apr 03 '13 at 16:19

answered Feb 19 '13 at 11:06

BenCr

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 08 '11 at 02:51

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No, you shouldn't have to start over. You can create a domain service and not inherit from anything. Look at examples of how people use WCF RIA services with Nhibernate.

Here is some stuff about using RIA with ctp4. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/adonetefx/thread/57793bec-abc6-4520-ac1d-a63e40239aed
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/adonetefx/thread/0e741f7f-700f-4efd-b10c-98f050f76c85

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Shimmy Weitzhandler

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answered Mar 12 '11 at 06:28

Derek Beattie

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Thanks, don't know why I didn't search "EF code first RIA" before. I'll give it a quick go then come back to accept your answer. – Thomas Mar 12 '11 at 14:31
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Please vote: http://dotnet.uservoice.com/forums/57026-wcf-ria-services/suggestions/1579271-ef-dbcontext-code-first-domainservicedescription – Shimmy Weitzhandler May 19 '11 at 00:31

Use EF4 DbContext with Domain Service

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