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Vitalik
Vitalik

Reputation: 2754

Many-to-many relationship in .NET RIA services

I have a many-to-many relationship in my database of objects A to B. When i create a domain service the metadata looks fine. A has a collections of Bs, B has a collection of As. So it is correct. However the *.g.cs file generated doesn't have the same relationship.

Is there a way to make it work? I googled some answer to actually generate objects for the association table but i am curious if i can avoid this.

Thanks

Upvotes: 8

Views: 2858

Answers (2)

Ajay Jadhav
Ajay Jadhav

Reputation: 2467

Till MS implements it in RIA, you can use http://m2m4ria.codeplex.com/ We have used in one of our Silverlight/RIA projects for User/Role (many-to-many) relationship and worked fine.

Upvotes: 2

Nikhil Kothari
Nikhil Kothari

Reputation: 5225

In the current release/version of RIA Services, you'll need the association table. We will most definitely be looking into this of course for a future release.

That said, I think often many-to-many relationships often have some interesting data associated with the relationship and as such, the middle table often has a real use, rather than existing for the sake of existing.

Upvotes: 4

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