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POCO Entities Through RIA Services

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10 Dec 2010CPOL11 min read 49K   1.1K   29  
This article demonstrates how to generate plain old class objects (POCO) from the Entity Framework v4 (EF4) and use them through RIA Services in SilverLight version 4.
namespace BusinessApp
{
    using System;
    using System.Runtime.Serialization;
    using System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Client.ApplicationServices;
    using System.Windows;
    using System.Windows.Controls;

    /// <summary>
    /// Main <see cref="Application"/> class.
    /// </summary>
    public partial class App : Application
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Creates a new <see cref="App"/> instance.
        /// </summary>
        public App()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            // Create a WebContext and add it to the ApplicationLifetimeObjects collection.
            // This will then be available as WebContext.Current.
            WebContext webContext = new WebContext();
            webContext.Authentication = new FormsAuthentication();
            //webContext.Authentication = new WindowsAuthentication();
            this.ApplicationLifetimeObjects.Add(webContext);
        }

        private void Application_Startup(object sender, StartupEventArgs e)
        {
            // This will enable you to bind controls in XAML to WebContext.Current properties.
            this.Resources.Add("WebContext", WebContext.Current);

            // This will automatically authenticate a user when using Windows authentication or when the user chose "Keep me signed in" on a previous login attempt.
            WebContext.Current.Authentication.LoadUser(this.Application_UserLoaded, null);

            // Show some UI to the user while LoadUser is in progress
            this.InitializeRootVisual();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Invoked when the <see cref="LoadUserOperation"/> completes.
        /// Use this event handler to switch from the "loading UI" you created in <see cref="InitializeRootVisual"/> to the "application UI".
        /// </summary>
        private void Application_UserLoaded(LoadUserOperation operation)
        {
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes the <see cref="Application.RootVisual"/> property.
        /// The initial UI will be displayed before the LoadUser operation has completed.
        /// The LoadUser operation will cause user to be logged in automatically if using Windows authentication or if the user had selected the "Keep me signed in" option on a previous login.
        /// </summary>
        protected virtual void InitializeRootVisual()
        {
            BusinessApp.Controls.BusyIndicator busyIndicator = new BusinessApp.Controls.BusyIndicator();
            busyIndicator.Content = new MainPage();
            busyIndicator.HorizontalContentAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Stretch;
            busyIndicator.VerticalContentAlignment = VerticalAlignment.Stretch;

            this.RootVisual = busyIndicator;
        }

        private void Application_UnhandledException(object sender, ApplicationUnhandledExceptionEventArgs e)
        {
            // If the app is running outside of the debugger then report the exception using a ChildWindow control.
            if (!System.Diagnostics.Debugger.IsAttached)
            {
                // NOTE: This will allow the application to continue running after an exception has been thrown but not handled. 
                // For production applications this error handling should be replaced with something that will report the error to the website and stop the application.
                e.Handled = true;
                ErrorWindow.CreateNew(e.ExceptionObject);
            }
        }
    }
}

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