Detecting changes to a new Entity

Thanks for the reply, David.

So, it sounds like the EntityAspect property of a DevForce entity just returns the underlying EntityFramework entity.

That seems to imply that the upcoming April version of DevForce that supports Entity Frameworks 4.0 will have the improved self-tracking features that are supposed to be coming in EF4, as discussed here:

http://www.develop.com/entityframework4

Can I get a beta copy of DevForce for EF4?

Hopefully this is a simple question to answer.

When creating a new object/Entity, how does one skip attempting to save it if it has not been modified? I'm trying to add some logic into a Saving event handler, but EnityAspect.HasChanges() seems to always return true as soon as an object has been created, even before any properties have been modified.   AcceptChanges() and RejectChanges() seem to have no effect.

Employee e = _manager.CreateEntity<Employee>();
// e.EntityAspect.HasChanges() == true

e.EntityAspect.AcceptChanges();
// e.EntityAspect.HasChanges() == true

e.EntityAspect.RejectChanges();
// e.EntityAspect.HasChanges() == true

The above code behaves the same even when the Employee is created with a simple constructor, e.g. Employee e = new Employee();

Is there some other technique that you recommend?

Thanks.