Entity Developer: Association Editor / Project Explorer bug
Posted: Mon 14 Sep 2009 20:17
I've come across two reproducible bugs in the Entity Developer for dotConnect dealing with associations. I am using version 2.20.37 Standard Edition to edit an Oracle DataContext, the language is VB and Visual Studio is 2008 Professional.
When bringing up the Association Editor dialog by right clicking an entity and selecting "Add Association", the Project Explorer tool window immediately adds a navigational property to the entity's class in the hierarchy. If you Cancel out of the Association Editor dialog then this non-existent navigational property remains in the Project Explorer, and also on the main diagram under the entity's Navigational Properties. This can be repeated and phantom properties will keep piling up in Project Explorer and on the diagram, even though they don't exist.
The second bug is similar. After successfully adding an association with the Association Editor dialog the Project Explorer window adds a duplicate property to each of the two associated classes. The property is a duplicate of the class' association property. For example, the Company class would show a second "ID" property and the Employee class would show a second "CompanyID" property. These duplicates don't appear on the main diagram, just the Project Explorer.
Thanks,
Chris
When bringing up the Association Editor dialog by right clicking an entity and selecting "Add Association", the Project Explorer tool window immediately adds a navigational property to the entity's class in the hierarchy. If you Cancel out of the Association Editor dialog then this non-existent navigational property remains in the Project Explorer, and also on the main diagram under the entity's Navigational Properties. This can be repeated and phantom properties will keep piling up in Project Explorer and on the diagram, even though they don't exist.
The second bug is similar. After successfully adding an association with the Association Editor dialog the Project Explorer window adds a duplicate property to each of the two associated classes. The property is a duplicate of the class' association property. For example, the Company class would show a second "ID" property and the Employee class would show a second "CompanyID" property. These duplicates don't appear on the main diagram, just the Project Explorer.
Thanks,
Chris