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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.
using System;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

namespace BasicDataViewer.DynamicData.FieldTemplates
{
    public partial class DateTime_EditField : System.Web.DynamicData.FieldTemplateUserControl
    {
        private static DataTypeAttribute DefaultDateAttribute = new DataTypeAttribute(DataType.DateTime);
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            TextBox1.ToolTip = Column.Description;

            SetUpValidator(RequiredFieldValidator1);
            SetUpValidator(RegularExpressionValidator1);
            SetUpValidator(DynamicValidator1);
            SetUpCustomValidator(DateValidator);
        }

        private void SetUpCustomValidator(CustomValidator validator)
        {
            if (Column.DataTypeAttribute != null)
            {
                switch (Column.DataTypeAttribute.DataType)
                {
                    case DataType.Date:
                    case DataType.DateTime:
                    case DataType.Time:
                        validator.Enabled = true;
                        DateValidator.ErrorMessage = HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(Column.DataTypeAttribute.FormatErrorMessage(Column.DisplayName));
                        break;
                }
            }
            else if (Column.ColumnType.Equals(typeof(DateTime)))
            {
                validator.Enabled = true;
                DateValidator.ErrorMessage = HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(DefaultDateAttribute.FormatErrorMessage(Column.DisplayName));
            }
        }

        protected void DateValidator_ServerValidate(object source, ServerValidateEventArgs args)
        {
            DateTime dummyResult;
            args.IsValid = DateTime.TryParse(args.Value, out dummyResult);
        }

        protected override void ExtractValues(IOrderedDictionary dictionary)
        {
            dictionary[Column.Name] = ConvertEditedValue(TextBox1.Text);
        }

        public override Control DataControl
        {
            get
            {
                return TextBox1;
            }
        }

    }
}

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