The issue is that on the client, I now have two nearly identical entities; they are out of synch.  The first entity is in use, so I can't just remove it and replace it with the new instance.  The only solution I have come up with is to manually synch the changed properties, but I was wondering if there was any other guidance.

 

Greg

 

This sounds like a very interesting and strange problem. Is your entity in the client detached, or what? I don't understand why it would be a seperate entity from the one on the server. Would it be possible to make that entity a part of your EM in the first place, so you can keep it up to date with whatever changes you've made on the server by using a DataSourceThenCache merge strategy, which will overwrite the client-side version of the data with whatever is retrieved from the server-side?

 

Yours,

Robert

 

Let me try to explain a bit better. 

 

On the client, I have an entity called EmailFolder.  I take this an pass it up to the Server and do some processing there to get new email.  One of the properties is called NumberOfNewEmails.  I set this property while on the server.  I then pass back the entire entity to the Client so that I know the number of new Emails.  Here is where the problem resides.  I can't add it back into the EntityManager as the original is already in the EntityManager so my only choice is to find the original and update the NumberOfNewEmails property using the copy.

 

In any case, don't worry about this too much, I got this working well enough to move along!

 

Greg