Hi,

Lets say I create a new entity instance, set its primary key and mark it as not new.

If I'm going to call 'Save' on the entity, what is the best way to modify it prior to the save such that the save does nothing!

So you see, I want to call save on an entity and have no work done.

Ian.

Ian wrote:

Hi,

Lets say I create a new entity instance, set its primary key and mark it as not new.

If I'm going to call 'Save' on the entity, what is the best way to modify it prior to the save such that the save does nothing!

So you see, I want to call save on an entity and have no work done. Ian.

You want to call a routine but you want it to do nothing? . In a recursive save you mean? Ok, besides the point why you would want to do this, you can set entity.Fields.IsDirty to false, and no save takes place.

Yes, I want to have a parent entity and assign children to it and have the children updated properly but without modifying the parent.

Ian wrote:

Yes, I want to have a parent entity and assign children to it and have the children updated properly but without modifying the parent.

If nothing is changed in the parent, it won't be saved. If something IS changed, it has to be saved obviously. The save code checks the Fields.IsDirty flag, so you can set taht to false and the entity won't be saved.