self-tracking-entities

Self Tracking Entities vs POCO Entities

January 5, 2024 by Tarik

For me STE is absolutely wrong concept. It is just another implementation of DataSet. In ASP.NET application you will have to store STEs somewhere among requests. In first request you will query your datasource to get STE and provide data in the page. In the next request (postback) you will want to modify STE with … Read more

What is the purpose of self tracking entities?

August 9, 2023 by Tarik

Self tracking entities (STE) are implementation of change set (previous .NET implementation of change set is DataSet). The difference between STE and other entity types (POCO, EntityObject) is that common entity types can track changes only when connected to living ObjectContext. Once common entity is detached it loose any change tracking ability. This is exactly … Read more