I started off following the video for Code Second to generate against a basic database I had already setup.  Rather than building a Silverlight app, I have been attempting to build a Winforms n-tier app. 

 

Ran into stacks of problems with missing references etc, managed to solve all those, but then got stuck on the EntityState problem (which looks to have a resolution), so thought I'd switch to looking at OData ... and hit a wall there as well.

 

Just like me to start breaking things my first time out! :-D

 

I'll implement your suggestion this evening, and give it another shot.  Again, thanks for your assistance!

 

T

I was able to reproduce the issue here. I'm assuming you're using Code First entities with "Code Second" method of template generation per your post here. http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3446&PID=13611&title=entitystate-property-not-available#13611

If so, this is a bug specific to using Code First. I'll file a bug report. For now, the workaround is to add the following property to your IgnorePropertiesAttribute as follows.

[IgnoreProperties(@"EntityAspect", @"AAAA_EntityAspectForSerialization")]

If you have many entities, you can customize the T4 template so you don't have to manually write the above. http://drc.ideablade.com/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/custom-code-generation-template

I've modified our current OData tour sample so that it uses Code Second and a custom T4 template in its own assembly. You can download it here. uploads/912/ODataTour_WithCodeFirst.zip

I've ended up with the cursed "An error occurred while processing this request." error. I then Googled around until I found out how to turn on debugging, as per the instructions here:

Now I'm seeing that the cause of the problem is an 'EntityState' property:

<SNIP>

The server encountered an error processing the request. The exception message is 'The property 'EntityState' on type 'IdeaBlade.EntityModel.EntityAspect' is not a valid property. Make sure that the type of the property is a public type and a supported primitive type or a entity type with a valid key or a complex type.'.

</SNIP>

Doing a search over my code, I can't even find an 'EntityState' property, leading me to think this is an internal DevForce property.

So ... what causes this, and how do I either fix it, or work around it?

Environment is Visual Studio 11 Beta, .NET Framework 4 project, on Win7 Ultimate.

Any assistance appreciated!

T