Question

An unhandled exception of type ‘System.StackOverflowException’ occurred in mscorlib.dll
Make sure you do not have an infinite loop or infinite recursion.

The below code is called on a success of this method:

internal static List<RivWorks.Model.Negotiation.ProductsSold> GetProductsSoldByCompany(Guid CompanyID)
{
    var ret = from a in _dbRiv.ProductsSold where a.Company.CompanyId == CompanyID select a;
    return ret.ToList();
}

On the return it calls into the Entity Model and tries to populate all foreign keyed objects (child objects). The schema is [1 Company has 0 to many ProductsSold]. For some reason, the call into the following code just cascades on itself:

[global::System.Data.Objects.DataClasses.EdmRelationshipNavigationPropertyAttribute("RIV_Model", "FK_ProductsSold_Company", "Company")]
[global::System.Xml.Serialization.XmlIgnoreAttribute()]
[global::System.Xml.Serialization.SoapIgnoreAttribute()]
[global::System.Runtime.Serialization.DataMemberAttribute()]
public Company Company
{
    get
    {
        return ((global::System.Data.Objects.DataClasses.IEntityWithRelationships)(this)).RelationshipManager.GetRelatedReference<Company>("RIV_Model.FK_ProductsSold_Company", "Company").Value;
    }
    set
    {
        ((global::System.Data.Objects.DataClasses.IEntityWithRelationships)(this)).RelationshipManager.GetRelatedReference<Company>("RIV_Model.FK_ProductsSold_Company", "Company").Value = value;
    }
}
/// <summary>
/// There are no comments for Company in the schema.
/// </summary>
[global::System.ComponentModel.BrowsableAttribute(false)]
[global::System.Runtime.Serialization.DataMemberAttribute()]
public global::System.Data.Objects.DataClasses.EntityReference<Company> CompanyReference
{
    get
    {
        return ((global::System.Data.Objects.DataClasses.IEntityWithRelationships)(this)).RelationshipManager.GetRelatedReference<Company>("RIV_Model.FK_ProductsSold_Company", "Company");
    }
    set
    {
        if ((value != null))
        {
            ((global::System.Data.Objects.DataClasses.IEntityWithRelationships)(this)).RelationshipManager.InitializeRelatedReference<Company>("RIV_Model.FK_ProductsSold_Company", "Company", value);
        }
    }
}

As you can see, the first method makes a call to the second method. The second method seems to call itself endlessly.

How do I fix this in EF?

Answer 1

After 3 times at deleting and rebuilding my model from scratch, the stack overflow is magically gone. <grrrrr />

Chalk it up to a bad wizard error somewhere along the line.