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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.
<UserControl 
  x:Class="BusinessApp.MainPage"
  xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" 
  xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
  xmlns:navigation="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Navigation" 
  xmlns:uriMapper="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Navigation;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Navigation"
  xmlns:dataControls="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Data.DataForm.Toolkit" 
  xmlns:login="clr-namespace:BusinessApp.LoginUI"
  xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" 
  mc:Ignorable="d" d:DesignWidth="640" d:DesignHeight="480" xmlns:sdk="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation/sdk" xmlns:riaControls="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.DomainServices" xmlns:my="clr-namespace:EntRIAServices.Web;assembly=EntRIAServices" xmlns:my1="clr-namespace:Entities;assembly=EntRIAServices">

  <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Style="{StaticResource LayoutRootGridStyle}">

    <Border x:Name="ContentBorder" Style="{StaticResource ContentBorderStyle}">
            <navigation:Frame x:Name="ContentFrame" Style="{StaticResource ContentFrameStyle}" 
                              Source="/Home" Navigated="ContentFrame_Navigated" NavigationFailed="ContentFrame_NavigationFailed">
                <navigation:Frame.UriMapper>
                  <uriMapper:UriMapper>
                    <uriMapper:UriMapping Uri="" MappedUri="/Views/Home.xaml"/>
                    <uriMapper:UriMapping Uri="/{pageName}" MappedUri="/Views/{pageName}.xaml"/>
                  </uriMapper:UriMapper>
                </navigation:Frame.UriMapper>
            </navigation:Frame>
    </Border>

    <Grid Style="{StaticResource NavigationOuterGridStyle}">
      <Grid x:Name="NavigationGrid" Style="{StaticResource NavigationGridStyle}">

        <Border x:Name="BrandingBorder" Style="{StaticResource BrandingBorderStyle}">
          <StackPanel x:Name="BrandingStackPanel" Style="{StaticResource BrandingStackPanelStyle}">

            <ContentControl Style="{StaticResource LogoIcon}"/>
            <TextBlock x:Name="ApplicationNameTextBlock" Style="{StaticResource ApplicationNameStyle}" 
                               Text="{Binding Strings.ApplicationName, Source={StaticResource ApplicationResources}}"/>

          </StackPanel>
        </Border>

        <Border x:Name="LinksBorder" Style="{StaticResource LinksBorderStyle}">
          <StackPanel x:Name="LinksStackPanel" Style="{StaticResource LinksStackPanelStyle}">

            <HyperlinkButton x:Name="Link1" Style="{StaticResource LinkStyle}" 
                                     NavigateUri="/Home" TargetName="ContentFrame" Content="{Binding Path=Strings.HomePageTitle, Source={StaticResource ApplicationResources}}"/>

            <Rectangle x:Name="Divider1" Style="{StaticResource DividerStyle}"/>

            <HyperlinkButton x:Name="Link2" Style="{StaticResource LinkStyle}" 
                                     NavigateUri="/About" TargetName="ContentFrame" Content="{Binding Path=Strings.AboutPageTitle, Source={StaticResource ApplicationResources}}"/>

          </StackPanel>
        </Border>

      </Grid>

      <Border Style="{StaticResource LoginContainerStyle}">
          <login:LoginStatus/>           
      </Border>
            <Grid DataContext="{Binding ElementName=zipDomainDataSource, Path=Data}" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="319,0,0,311" Name="grid1" VerticalAlignment="Bottom">
                <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                    <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
                    <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
                </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                <Grid.RowDefinitions>
                    <RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
                </Grid.RowDefinitions>
                <sdk:Label Content="County:" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="3" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
                <TextBox Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0" Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="3" Name="countyTextBox" Text="{Binding Path=County, Mode=TwoWay, NotifyOnValidationError=true, ValidatesOnExceptions=true, TargetNullValue=''}" VerticalAlignment="Center" Width="120" />
            </Grid>
        </Grid>
        <riaControls:DomainDataSource AutoLoad="True" d:DesignData="{d:DesignInstance my1:Zip, CreateList=true}" Height="0" LoadedData="zipDomainDataSource_LoadedData" Name="zipDomainDataSource" QueryName="GetZipsQuery" Width="0">
            <riaControls:DomainDataSource.DomainContext>
                <my:EntityDomainContext />
            </riaControls:DomainDataSource.DomainContext>
        </riaControls:DomainDataSource>
    </Grid>

</UserControl>

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