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    <p>I'm using EF 4, WCF Data Services and Silverlight 4. I have been getting data from my service without problems. I'm trying to save entities in a batch that are defined in EF with a complex type that has non-nullable columns. Ex: Customer has a Complex Type of Audit. Audit has an EntryDateTime column that is marked as computed (could that be the problem?). It also has an Address field that is required. In my Silverlight app, I have a form to enter customer info and the address info. On the save button click I do something like this:</p> <pre><code>Customer c = new Customer(); c.Name = this.nameTextBox.Text; // more properties set.... Customer.Audit = new Audit(){ UserId = 1, EntryDateTime = DateTime.UtcNow}; c.Address = new Address() { Address = this.addressTextBox.Text, ZipCode = this.zipcodeTextBox.Text, // more properties set.... Audit = new new Audit(){ UserId = 1, EntryDateTime = DateTime.UtcNow} }; EDM context = new EDM(new Uri(serviceURL, UriKind.Absolute)); // add to the context for the update context.AddToCustomers(c); context.AddToAddresses(c.Address); </code></pre> <p>// I'm not sure if the update is needed... context.UpdateObject(c); context.UpdateObject(c.Address);</p> <pre><code>// manually add the link according to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd756361.aspx, this must be done for the context to know about the relationship (aka association) context.SetLink(c, "Address", c.Address); // save the changes (batch so all the objects will get created with associations) context.BeginSaveChanges(SaveChangeOptions.Batch, new AsyncCallback((iar) =&gt; { try { // Callback method for the async request, retrieves the status of the requested action DataServiceResponse response = this.Context.EndSaveChanges(iar); // Maps the status of the requested action </code></pre> <p>bool status = true; foreach (ChangeOperationResponse change in response) { if (!change.StatusCode > 200 &amp;&amp; change.StatusCode &lt; 300;) { status = false; break; } } if(!status) throw new Exception("something wrong with the save");</p> <p>I've set breakpoints and have seen the entryDateTime as set (in the EF designer.cs and before the saveChanges is called), but the server is always throwing an exception that the entryDateTime is null and cannot be for a non-nullable column for a database insert. I've also tried to attach and update the audit, but that didn't help either (as I expected).</p> <pre><code>context.AddLink(customer.Audit, "Audit", customer); context.UpdateObject(customer.Audit); </code></pre> <p>Is there something I'm missing?</p> <p>EDIT: I put the question up last night very quickly as I was on my way out. Thank you for the comments and hopefully I've made my question clear.</p>
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    1. COthat code is obviously internal code you have for adding/updating an object? (as i havent heard of `AddLink` or `UpdateObject` before). can you show the code for those methods?
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    2. COIf Audit is a complex type, then you can't add a link to it, for that to work it must be an entity type.
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    3. COCould you show us the model (either class definitions for Customer and Audit, or the $metadata output of the service)?
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