RIA Services Repository Save does not work!?

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Published on 2010-03-22T10:10:55Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 11:31 UTC
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Hello everybody!

Doing my first SL4 MVVM RIA based application and i ran into the following situation: updating a record (EF4,NO-POCOS!!) in the SL-client seems to take place, but values in the dbms are unchanged. Debugging with Fiddler the message on save is (amongst others):

EntityActions.nil? b9http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays^HasMemberChanges?^Id?^ Operation?Update

I assume that this says only: hey! the dbms should do an update on this record, AND nothing more! Is that right?!

I 'm using a generic repository like this:

public class Repository<T> : IRepository<T> where T : class
    {
        IObjectSet<T> _objectSet;
        IObjectContext _objectContext;

        public Repository(IObjectContext objectContext)
        {
            this._objectContext = objectContext;
            _objectSet = objectContext.CreateObjectSet<T>();
        }

        public IQueryable<T> AsQueryable()
        {
            return _objectSet;
        }
        public IEnumerable<T> GetAll()
        {
            return _objectSet.ToList();
        }
        public IEnumerable<T> Find(Expression<Func<T, bool>> where)
        {
            return _objectSet.Where(where);
        }
        public T Single(Expression<Func<T, bool>> where)
        {
            return _objectSet.Single(where);
        }
        public T First(Expression<Func<T, bool>> where)
        {
            return _objectSet.First(where);
        }
        public void Delete(T entity)
        {
            _objectSet.DeleteObject(entity);
        }
        public void Add(T entity)
        {
            _objectSet.AddObject(entity);
        }
        public void Attach(T entity)
        {
            _objectSet.Attach(entity);     
        }

        public void Save()
        {           
            _objectContext.SaveChanges();
        }
    }

The DomainService Update Method is the following:

[Update]
        public void UpdateCulture(Culture currentCulture)
        {
            if (currentCulture.EntityState == System.Data.EntityState.Detached)
            {
                this.cultureRepository.Attach(currentCulture);
            }
            this.cultureRepository.Save();
        }

I know that the currentCulture-Entity is detached. What confuses me (amongst other things) is this: is the _objectContext still alive? (which means it "will be"??? aware of the changes made to record, so simply calling Attach() and then Save() should be enough!?!?)

What am i missing?

Development Environment: VS2010RC - Entity Framework 4 (no POCOs)

Thanks in advance

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