I, have been wanting to take ourapplication to an Occasionally Connected Application (OCA) for some time now, but have not found all the necessary pieces coming together for us
to justify, what in effect meant writing huge amounts of boiler plate code(having to use antiquated COM or third party db tool/ integration with sync etc)
This is all until I saw the presentation at PDC, and must say was very well explained how the new synch service helps us share data model on server and client, synch data
sources etc. This has convinced me that we can now offer this product to clients as a workable solution. I do however have a central question
I use Silverlight client connecting via WCFRIA to an ORM, in the form of entity framework. All of my business logic is located within the factory layer in the form of LINQ queries
and meta data declarations using partial classes (as indicated by best practices). Thus as an example we use the [Include] attribute within partial class declarations and then within the corresponding query use the linq extension .Include, to thus bring back
a nested entity (i.e. order details within an order entity). This is one example and we indeed make use of other attributes such as [Composition], and [Association].
My question is this:
Is it possible to extend the current capabilities of the
DefualtscopeOfflineContext
file so that we can in effect extend to also use attributes such as the aforementioned [Include]. The reason I ask is that I have over 200 LINQ queries in my application and
would like to simply reuse the same code for a service data source, as well as an offline data source. For simple queries this is fine and I can see working, it is just the use of the more advanced attribute decorations that causes issues.
Thank you in advance for your help
