Hi,
When performing an update of an item and only few of the item's properties have changed then all not changed properties are used as keys in the update statement generated by Linq To Sql.
I'm using the latest version released (2009-10-07) of dotConnect for MySQL.
Here is an pseudo code example. Only relevant code is presented.
//old password == "myoldPw"
_password = "myNewPassword;
var data = (from user in dataContext.Users where user.UserId == id select item).Single();
data.UserId = _userId
data.Username = _username;
data.Email = _email;
data.IsUnlocked = _isUnlocked;
data.Created =_created;
data.Password = _password
dataContext.SubmitChanges();
The sql statement generated is:
UPDATE user SET Password = :p1 WHERE UserId = :key1 AND Username = :key2 AND Email = :key3 AND IsUnlocked...
Thanks
Niklas