How to update .Net domain service from entity model?

Question

I have not found a way to update a .Net domain service after I changed the underlying entity model.

So when there are changes to the model I create a new domain service as workaround and copy my properties/methods from my old domain service to it.

Is there any easier and maybe less error prone way?

Answer 1

I've created a snippet that really helps out with this problem. Check my answer here:

Adding additional entities to a Entity Framework backed Domain Service

Answer 2

Well, the best thing I found are partial classes. In addition to the automatically created DomainService.cs I add a DomainServiceProtected.cs where my implementations I don't want to have overwritten every time something changes in the entity model reside.