This is a creampuff question floating across home plate - will some please take a swing at it? Many thanks in advance.
An introduction:
1. I'm new to csla.
2. I'm 55 and been out of coding for too long (too many children)
3. I've purchased and read the last 3 of Rocky's books and bought two online titles.
4. After several false starts, I am finally getting a few hours to actually build an app.
5. I've got a serious ADHD-driven reading problem.
All true.
I've followed the sample code for a WinForms project, using the DataPortal_XYZ methods. I've built a terribly simple, two field, disposable application to make sure I understand how things work.
I've got it working - Rocky and friends are complete geniuses and should be prohibited from selling books to people like me - but for one quirk that I don't understand.
My business object DataPortal_XYZ methods can't seem to handle a complete reference to the project.DalLinq.
I've referenced my dallinq to my library just like he says in the book. But...
In the sample, his code looks like this:
<Transactional(TransactionalTypes.TransactionScope)> _
Protected Overrides Sub DataPortal_Insert()
Using ctx = ContextManager(Of ProjectTracker.DalLinq.PTrackerDataContext).GetManager(ProjectTracker.DalLinq.Database.PTracker)
In my code, it looks like this:
Transactional(TransactionalTypes.TransactionScope)> _ Protected Overrides Sub DataPortal_Insert()
Using ctx = ContextManager(Of DalLinq.ScoreBoardDataContext).GetManager(DalLinq.Database.ScoreBoard)
I've named my DalLinq as "ScoreBoard.DalLinq". I can't put the "ScoreBoard" in front of DalLinq as then intellisense only shows me "Library" as a selectable option.
The root namespace in "ScoreBoard.Library" is ScoreBoard.Library.
The root namespace in "ScoreBoard.DalLinq" is ScoreBoard.DalLinq
There's a reference in "ScoreBoard.Library" to "ScoreBoard.DalLinq".
There's a reference in "SBWin.exe" to "ScoreBoard.Library".
I know this is a namespace issue or something really simple and it may work fine, but when it doesn't look like Rocky's code, as simple as this is, I wonder if I've done something that'll bite me in the butt later.
Has anyone seen anything like this before and has a simple - "oh you forgot to..." answer?
Geezer butt biting just ends up in bad Karma. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated (and gets you beers when you're in Indianapolis). :D
It does sound like a namespace issue, but I don't know the answer. Maybe the LINQ to SQL designer isn't honoring the VB root namespace or something?
Try adding a class directly to your DalLinq project, and writing some code to use the context - just to find out the full type name of the context object.
Thanks for the reply, Rocky.
I did put a class in there and purposely got it wrong (yeah, right) and let the vs2008 error handler "suggest" a correction.
My original:
- Using ... GetManager(DalLinq.Database.ScoreBoard)
Seems the following work:
-Using ... GetManager(Global.ScoreBoard.DalLinq.Database.ScoreBoard)
Looks like the database name matches the inferred first segment of the namespace name and maybe it doesn't like that. I don't actually have a namespace of "ScoreBoard" but perhaps one is inferred from "ScoreBoard.Library"
Is there a possibility that I'm using "ScoreBoard" in a few too many places and there's some kind of confusion? I'll experiment and let you know.
OK, I edited this post and that means that my useful secondary observations didn't get sent out in an email. I didn't realize that it worked that way until I got half my message back; so this is a bump.
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