[Solved] RIA child Update

[Hector]

I am using RIA service to retrieve my data. That works greate, but I am trying to create a new parent and child data. I am having trouble on finding the child property on my parent object so I can submit all the objects at the same time. Is this possible ?

Hector

[PetarP]

Hello Hector,

The child property is currently not generated out of the box. In order to have the collection generated you will have to add some attributes to the already generated classes. For example if you have a collection of order details in your order class you will have to add the following above your property that is representing the collection:

[Include]
        [System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Association("Order_OrderDetails_FK","OrderID","OrderID")]
        public virtual IList<OrderDetail> OrderDetails
        {
            get
            {
                return this.orderDetails;
            }
        }

Save and rebuild your project. This will trigger our RIA provider implementation to pick up this association and generate the proper client code.
We are planning to extend our RIA support and include a wizard that will help you add all those attributes automatically however until then they need to be added manually.

Regards,
Petar
the Telerik team

[richard]

 Is this wizard still on the roadmap? maybe 2011 Q1? How about support for generating the Metadata classes also? 

[PetarP]

Hello richard,

 Yes, the wizard is still in our plans, however no significant changes will be introduced with the Q1 release. One of the features we plan to introduce in the RIA wizard is the metadata class. Unfortunately at this point I am not able to provide you with exact time frame when those changes will be implemented.

Regards,
Petar
the Telerik team