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Building WPF Applications with Self-Tracking Entity Generator - Project Setup

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This article describes the project setup of building a WPF sample application with Self-Tracking Entity Generator for WPF/Silverlight.
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using System.ServiceModel;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace SchoolSample.EntityModel
{
    public partial class Person
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Static constructor to initialize ValidateEntityOnPropertyChanged
        /// </summary>
        static Person()
        {
#if (WPF)
            ValidateEntityOnPropertyChanged = false;
#endif
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Partial method to add all validation actions
        /// defined for this class
        /// </summary>
        partial void InitializeValidationSettings()
        {
            AddPropertyValidationAction("Name", ValidateName);
        }

        #region "Private Validation Methods"

        /// <summary>
        /// Validation Action:
        /// check whether name contains no digit number
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="value"></param>
        private void ValidateName(object value)
        {
            var name = (string)value;

            if (name != null && Regex.IsMatch(name, @"\d"))
            {
#if (WPF)
                ValidationResult result = new ValidationResult("This field cannot contain any digit.", new List<string> { "Name" });
                AddError("Name", result);
#else
                FaultReason faultReason = new FaultReason("Name cannot contain any digit.");
                throw new FaultException(faultReason);
#endif
            }
        }

        #endregion "Private Validation Methods"
    }
}

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Weidong has been an information system professional since 1990. He has a Master's degree in Computer Science, and is currently a MCSD .NET

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