How To Update EF 4 Entity In ASP.NET MVC 3?

Question

I have 2 projects - a class library containing an EDM Entity Framework model and a seperate ASP.NET MVC project.

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Answer 1

I would retrieve the user from the database and update that entity. EF can't just magically know which values are supposed to be modified and which aren't.

If you're concerned about concurrency issues you would need to store the timestamp in the view - usually as a hidden form value.