Question

I get an ‘An error occurred while processing this request’ Exception when I try to Save some changes from my WPF-Application to a WCF-Data-Service. Loading all Records works fine, but saving them doesn’t work.

Hope you can help.

public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
    private DBEntities _dbEntities;

    public MainWindow()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        _dbEntities = new DBEntities(new Uri("http://localhost:49256/DataService.svc/"));
    }

    private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        foreach (var user in _dbEntities.User)
        {
            treeView1.Items.Add(user.Name);
        }
    }

    private void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        try
        {
            _dbEntities.MergeOption = MergeOption.AppendOnly;
            User user = new User(){Age = 1, ID = Guid.NewGuid(), Name = "Test"};
            _dbEntities.AddToUser( user);
            _dbEntities.SaveChanges();
        } catch(Exception ex)
        {
            MessageBox.Show(ex.Message+ ex.InnerException.Message);
        }
    }
}

There are no more exception details.

After setting UseVerboseErrors = true the following exception message appears:

Unable to update the EntitySet ‘User’ because it has a DefiningQuery and no element exists in the element to support the current operation.

Answer 1

You can get this error if your underlying ‘User’ table doesn’t have a primary key identified. How is your entity set up (EF, LINQ-to-SQL, etc.) and what’s your underlying repository (SQL, etc.)? I’ll update my answer accordingly. Hope this helps!