Entity Framework Update Entity along with child entities (add/update as necessary)

Question

I have a many-to-many relationship between Issues and Scopes in my EF Context. In ASP.NET MVC, I bring up an Edit form that allows the user to edit a

Answer 1

**Disclaimer: I am relatively new to EF, take my answer with a bucket of salt.

If this is an edit form, I think your issue object should not be a "new" issue, it should pull the issue out of the data store. As far as I can see by doing:

Issue issue = new Issue { IssueID = id, TSColumn = formIssue.TSColumn }; edmx.Issues.Attach(issue); you are effectively creating a New Issue with the Id of the one you are trying to edit.

Again, I am here looking for ways to make sense of EF myself. Sometimes I miss my SQL statements.