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Chatumbabub
Chatumbabub

Reputation: 1637

EF5 and .net 4.5

I'm thinking about this scenario.

In desktop application I will create EF STE enity. App will be using EF 5 and .NET 4.0. This entity will be send through WCF to server where will be .NET 4.5 and also EF5.

Is this supported scenario? (i'm failing to find anything useful) I would like to have performance benefits in .net 4.5 on server side.

Thank you.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 110

Answers (1)

Rob G
Rob G

Reputation: 3526

If the desktop application is also doing things to a database I'm going to assume it's a different one than is on the server. You'll still want to convert complex entities into simpler ones. For instance if you have an entity that contains a list of other entities that you know already exist on the server, translate that into a message entity (by convention just append Message to the entity name i.e. EntityName -> EntityNameMessage) before sending it over the wire by selecting the Ids from the original entity when you translate, rather than the list's entire contents. This would be one way to gain performance.

Alternatively you're using the same database on the client and the server, which is probably a bad practice since you would have to recycle EF on the server every time the client updated an entity in its database, since EF wouldn't know about the change.

Upvotes: 1

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